Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 3 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 4 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 7 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 8 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 9 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 10 | When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile . |
| 11 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 12 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 13 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |
| 14 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 15 | you was telling me about a suit . |
| 16 | IWAS looking at them uncomprehendingly ; they were eyeing me like a cat watches a captured mouse that might yet try to make a dash for freedom . |
| 17 | They were using me as a guinea-pig to investigate the hourly variation in mental efficiency of those with irregular sleeping patterns , such as airline pilots or globe-trotting diplomats . |
| 18 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 19 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 20 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 21 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 22 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 23 | He was regarding me with an indulgence that did not convince me . |
| 24 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Well he was poking me in the groin . |
| 27 | All this time he was propelling me into a little room near the front door , and I was absolutely stiff with fright . |
| 28 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |