Example sentences of "[pron] be [v-ing] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the stressed housewife may take rights 3 and 7 and decide that : ‘ I have the right to suggest to my elderly mother-in-law that she enquire about the possibility of a home-help , as the demands she is making on me are wearing me out ’ . |
| 2 | It 's just me paper I 'm marking me rose on |
| 3 | Actually someone were telling me |
| 4 | They pushed through the padded door , back towards the dining room , and Miranda confided , ‘ When I 'm really on the breadline and someone 's taking me out , I sometimes tell them I have n't any change for Madame Pipi — they give me something . |
| 5 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 6 | I was fuming me . |
| 7 | And when I went out yesterday I had this horrible feeling someone was watching me all the time . |
| 8 | ‘ I had a feeling someone was watching me . ’ |
| 9 | I was talking to friends when I realized that someone was watching me . |
| 10 | I must have dropped off to sleep ; next thing , someone was prodding me in the ribs with a rifle butt , and a voice was saying , ‘ Come on , Piper . |
| 11 | There was a point when I wondered if someone was having me on , but few people even knew I had written in . |
| 12 | Brian Hawker , both a spiritual director and pastoral counsellor , says , ‘ spiritual direction is dealing with eternal realities , pastoral counselling is dealing with problems in the here and now which are blocking me from looking at eternal realities ’ . |
| 13 | In a voice full of virginal astonishment he said , ‘ 'E were touchin' me fookin' cock . ’ |
| 14 | Halfway up the aisle the Ted turned his head again to the packed house and in the same pained voice of injured innocence repeated , ‘ 'E were touchin' me fookin' cock . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think it 's the thought of leaving him as much as anything else which is worrying me . |
| 16 | and when she went over she says er school being off , she heard er David saying something about well nobody 's keeping me from my ironing . |
| 17 | She said , ‘ Nobody 's putting me in no garbage can . ’ |
| 18 | As she walked past his crumpled body she had said again , ‘ Nobody 's putting me in no garbage can . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm warm and free and there 's lights and people , and nobody 's asking me questions . |
| 20 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 21 | and , and that 's er it 's all the slowness which was doing me in . |
| 22 | I had never been able to do that , not with such unselfconscious pleasure , perhaps because deep down I had resented his existence which was preventing me doing all the marvellous things I had intended to do in the world . |
| 23 | At 60,000 feet it was harder to tell which was giving me the better high : the puppy poo , the Beastie Boys album or the Cessna . |
| 24 | But no , it seemed to be the local name for the twenty kilo fish which was giving me a hard time , though later someone else called it a kingfish . |
| 25 | Nobody was telling me what a terrific body I have . |
| 26 | Somebody was telling me that . |
| 27 | Somebody was telling me that erm some careers service It was Steve I was talking to in the car the other night . |
| 28 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 29 | Somebody was telling me it took her four years ! |
| 30 | But , I know black people who are watching me in the audience or on the TV are thinking it 's a black versus white thing . |