Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] me in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speechlessly Fabia stared at him , and he went on to explain , ‘ Then last night , after a sublime day , we went out to dine and I began to admit to myself that you were getting to me in a big way . ’ |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Denis and I provided the background music for this particular ‘ pack in the box ’ and much hissing was heard from me in the interval into the ear of our Company Manager Jeremy Adams . |
| 3 | Mary said : ‘ Within 20 minutes of his birth he was given to me in a blanket , still covered in blood . |
| 4 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |
| 5 | " Well , mother explained to me what was expected of me in the marriage bed and it sounded so terrifying . |
| 6 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 7 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 8 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 9 | By Tuesday she was flirting with me in a sweet , old-fashioned way , blue eyes as young as her memory . |
| 10 | She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine ! |
| 11 | MUCH OF THE INTERIOR OF MY FATE AND THAT OF JEAN-Claude 's was revealed to me in the opaque , vaporous interior of la Sologne . |
| 12 | The above account was written to me in a long , beautifully typed letter . |
| 13 | I should be alone , and the old custom that clerks resigned on marriage was told to me in no uncertain way . |
| 14 | Before I knew it , she was lying beside me in the small white tent . |
| 15 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
| 16 | The wench was waiting for me in the street . |
| 17 | Another introduction to politics was provided for me in the person of Randolph Churchill . |
| 18 | He was sitting beside me in the jump seat or that generally occupied by a second pilot because in those days there were no flight engineers on twin-engined aircraft . |
| 19 | Poverty also brought up romantic visions of the struggling artist , fewer demands and expectations , and the kind of hard-headed practicality that was bred into me in the North of England . |
| 20 | I respect er the view that was put to me in the extract from P P G twelve , but i nevertheless think that this is a matter of principle because it does n't apply to a particular res western route , it applies to all the western routes . |
| 21 | And er he was hovering behind me in the classroom , like you know ! |
| 22 | Whereas hostility was expressed towards me in the taunts and jeers of my classmates and even by physical assault , I reckoned that Elsie would have had to put up with prejudice of a different sort . |