Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on gazing at me for a moment , then asked : ‘ Everything in hand downstairs ? ’ |
| 2 | I mean I … you know I do talk quite openly to my pupils which is a little daring of me because the situation in Cyprus is a little different from here … |
| 3 | He 's an actor of sorts , mostly resting like me . |
| 4 | Keeps on laughing at me and running away ! |
| 5 | This time Alison refused the bait , merely gazing at me with her large bovine eyes . |
| 6 | Fortunately Roy was only toying with me , eventually agreeing to participate in good spirit . |
| 7 | ‘ She is my abuelita already in my heart , Señorita Shelley — so kindly , and so understanding to me and my family . |
| 8 | But like , Mr really really bad like maths teacher , he goes erm he goes to , she goes to him the other day oh you 're only picking on me cos I got ginger hair ! |
| 9 | We were only according to me ! |
| 10 | and people swiftly looking at me . |
| 11 | They were merely waiting for me to say my part . |
| 12 | I remember Ron Evans once half-jokingly saying to me : " It 's all very well , you know . |
| 13 | Even when you have n't , yeah , but erm , no I mean , there is a guy at work , I mean there is a guy at work that 's constantly saying to me , oh it 's really noticing , it 's really started , he says this every day , and he , after a while , I mean it 's nice to be told it , once in a while , but not every day . |
| 14 | He was only saying to me |
| 15 | When I meet people who are HIV positive or who have got AIDS , I am always surprised at how positive they are ; it 's personally inspiring for me to meet people who have thought out what they are doing about their lives and the changes they have made . |
| 16 | She did not dispute that , merely standing before me , head bowed , yet sneaking side glances at me and round about . |
| 17 | ’ I can understand what they were doing , ’ he says ’ They were obviously thinking of me . |
| 18 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
| 19 | Thank you , child ! ’ and he just went on looking at me . |
| 20 | But they were , they kept on looking at me to see if I was gon na move and I thought I 'm not gon na move till you move . |
| 21 | M. and Mme. Wastiaux , whom many of you will remember from the Easter Course at Avery Hill , do much of the organising and besides looking after me very well attend all the movement classes . |
| 22 | I have a good mind to ask you to serve full-time on my reporting staff , but I am selfish enough to want you to go on writing for me these exposés of low life , particularly the way in which such misery afflicts women . |
| 23 | By the summer of 1978 I 've lost another stone , without meaning to , and the rust-coloured cords I ordered from the catalogue only a month ago are already hanging off me . |
| 24 | My mother 's final illness had been long and painful for her and emotionally and physically demanding for me . |
| 25 | He 's not apologizing to me , Zen realized . |
| 26 | ‘ Now you 're just laughing at me ! ’ |
| 27 | Peter immediately replied , ‘ I would like Susie to give up work and stay at home , so that I can be sure that she is not cheating on me and not planning to leave . ’ |
| 28 | But I watched , out of a sense of duty admittedly , most of the election news programmes , feeling all the time , these are not relating to me in any way . |
| 29 | I bet they are not praying for me going to Saltcoats . |
| 30 | It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right . |