Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] me [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Jennifer told me : ‘ One guy wrote telling me he was going to burn me out of town , burn my house down . |
| 3 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 4 | But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings . |
| 5 | Maybe he thought he was going to get me back into the Church , but what I was doing was strictly pagan . |
| 6 | My start was beginning to let me down around this time — Ron and I were concentrating more on my pick-up — but I had the satisfaction of beating Calvin Smith quite comfortably . |
| 7 | He was meant to phone me up at four ! |
| 8 | Pointy-Beard was somewhere underneath me and was trying to roll me out from under Armstrong . |
| 9 | ‘ He was trying to keep me out of it . ’ |