Example sentences of "[be] [verb] i [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 2 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 3 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 4 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 5 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 6 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 7 | GERRY JOHNSON is driving me along the winding roads of south-western Virginia . |
| 8 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 9 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 10 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 11 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 12 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 13 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |