Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | He said , ‘ But you were going to tell me about the business . ’ |
| 3 | He said you were going to change me on the medication , |
| 4 | Only then did I realize they were going to transport me up the mountain . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He was going to take me to the derelict château he and Montaine had discovered in a clearing in one of the forests . |
| 7 | Perhaps he was going to touch me for the air fare home . |
| 8 | Deeply afraid that this man was going to put me in a cage . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was going to sack me on the spot . |
| 13 | Admiral Paul Rowe , of Rotherham Starfleet Command , was waiting to meet me from the train . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing ; it had occurred the same morning . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |