Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] me [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspector Drew was looking at me very closely , and I felt rather like a naughty schoolboy under the stern gaze of the headmaster . |
| 2 | One of the social workers had come into the office and was looking at me very strangely . |
| 3 | He was looking after me so kindly . |
| 4 | My mother 's story on the other hand was told to me much earlier , in bits and pieces throughout the fifties , and it was n't delivered to entertain but rather to teach me lessons . |
| 5 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 6 | This overt intervention in our lives was experienced by me as entirely beneficent , so I find it difficult to match an analysis of the welfare policies of the late forties which calls " the post-war Labour government … the last and most glorious flowering of late Victorian liberal philanthropy " , 6 which I know to be correct , with the sense of self that those policies imparted . |
| 7 | It was put to me very forcibly by the junior doctors that unless they had the power to withdraw their labour , how else could they ‘ get their rights ’ ? |
| 8 | She was talking to me just now , before you put your oar in . |
| 9 | ‘ She was starin' at me so rudely , ’ Lou recounted one day , ‘ I very nearly said , ‘ Wait a minute , I 'll get a basin for your eyes ’ . ’ |