Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other exercises were designed to help me with a problem of co-ordination in hammer-ons and in string skipping . |
| 2 | She was wearing a large muff and as they left the train Minton remarked , ‘ I thought you were going to smuggle me through the barrier in that . ’ |
| 3 | He said , ‘ But you were going to tell me about the business . ’ |
| 4 | He said you were going to change me on the medication , |
| 5 | Only then did I realize they were going to transport me up the mountain . |
| 6 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 7 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 8 | He was going to take me to the derelict château he and Montaine had discovered in a clearing in one of the forests . |
| 9 | Perhaps he was going to touch me for the air fare home . |
| 10 | Deeply afraid that this man was going to put me in a cage . |
| 11 | I would feel bad if I knew for certain that someone was going to cosh me with a lead pipe on January 15 of that year . |
| 12 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 13 | I thought everyone was going to recognise me on the street , ’ Now his favourite leisure activities are watching television — ‘ I call it my sofa therapy ’ — and having friends over for dinner . |
| 14 | He was going to sack me on the spot . |
| 15 | Admiral Paul Rowe , of Rotherham Starfleet Command , was waiting to meet me from the train . |
| 16 | While he was thinking how to do this , he was asked to bring me to the palace . |
| 17 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 18 | There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground . |
| 19 | Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing ; it had occurred the same morning . |
| 20 | I met a scum fan on the bus home from town late on Saturday night who was trying to tell me in a very loud voice that Strachan was now ‘ past it ’ and ‘ knackered ’ . |
| 21 | Perhaps I was n't the plaything of a mage , who was determined to drag me into a frightening and chaotic world of naked will , only a seriously neurotic person in need of help . |
| 22 | Ted Heath was sent to inform me of the result . |
| 23 | The arched terracotta mount was chosen to remind me of the colour and style of Portuguese houses , and the frame was another easy choice because we saw so much dark wood furniture there . |