Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 2 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 3 | Before I knew it , she was lying beside me in the small white tent . |
| 4 | I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back . |
| 5 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 6 | When I went into town to order my new clothes , Mr Pumblechook was waiting for me at the door of his shop . |
| 7 | This time he was waiting for me at the table . |
| 8 | Jekyll 's servant had received by the same post a letter similar to mine , and he was waiting for me with the locksmith . |
| 9 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 10 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
| 11 | The wench was waiting for me in the street . |
| 12 | Ashley was glaring at me over the candle flame the way a hawk must glare at a field mouse the instant before it parts mouse from field forever . |
| 13 | ‘ Thankfully I 've forgotten it all now and I have to look at it as something that was flattering to me at the time . |
| 14 | So here she was sitting beside me on the window-seat , shut in between a heavy curtain and a window . |
| 15 | He was sitting beside me in the jump seat or that generally occupied by a second pilot because in those days there were no flight engineers on twin-engined aircraft . |
| 16 | I know Ellen Garwood loved to call him Mr Green , and when she would write me letters thinking that Mr Green was her real son , I got the impression that she was talking to me on the telephone underneath her bed , about the fun she was having . |
| 17 | Yes , well , as a matter of fact er , the moderator was talking to me on the telephone |
| 18 | So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ . |
| 19 | And er he was hovering behind me in the classroom , like you know ! |
| 20 | Luckily I had a friend who had run the photo lab at Time magazine who was working with me on the technical side and we came up with this idea of trying to use Fujichrome 1600 . |