Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was trying to frighten me off , of course . |
| 2 | In the lobby of that hotel , on the following evening , I was to meet a Mrs Knelle , the friend of an English friend , and she was going to put me up at her house in the country . |
| 3 | Lili looked at her squarely , and for a moment I entertained a mad hope that she would deny this , would announce that my engagement was a travesty and a cruelty , would say that she was going to take me away and teach me how to dress or to dance . |
| 4 | I thought she was going to pin me down and that would be it . |
| 5 | ‘ Because — well , I suppose because being near you was beginning to make me very nervous . ’ |
| 6 | You was trying to butter me up were n't you ? |
| 7 | I did n't really think it was going to take me very long to go through that , sorry . |
| 8 | He reflected , ‘ It was a disaster , this movie , and I knew then it was going to set me back . ’ |
| 9 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 10 | I knew he was trying to cheer me up but I was determined to go back to my knitting lessons when the vultures had gone . |
| 11 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 12 | ‘ He was trying to keep me out of it . ’ |
| 13 | They will say ‘ I did n't know he was hoarding the tablets ’ or ‘ If only I had listened to what he was saying , maybe he was trying to tell me how he felt , and I was always too busy to listen . ’ |
| 14 | It may seem stupid , but it was n't until years later , when we were in Morocco , that I understood what he was trying to tell me then . |
| 15 | I still wanted to see more of the world , and as he was offering to give me double the usual pay , I managed to persuade my wife to let me go . |
| 16 | ‘ When I managed to get upright I saw him cocking the gun again , thought he was going to shoot me again and moved towards him to defend myself . ’ |
| 17 | Jennifer told me : ‘ One guy wrote telling me he was going to burn me out of town , burn my house down . |
| 18 | That meant he was going to kiss me again . |
| 19 | But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings . |
| 20 | Maybe he thought he was going to get me back into the Church , but what I was doing was strictly pagan . |
| 21 | " He was going to show me how to fold up a map properly . " |