Example sentences of "[be] [verb] me [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You mean that 's the monster you 've just been telling me all about ? ’ |
| 32 | It 's a legal document … but they 've been telling me that all along . |
| 33 | She could n't have been asleep when I lifted the ledger from her lap and scanned its pages : she must have been watching me all the time . |
| 34 | You are telling me that up there on the stone face of Glasgow your soul was set on fire . ’ |
| 35 | Er the gentleman coming from Scotland on Saturday is bringing me all the table linen and we 're table linen for . |
| 36 | Then , before she could protest again , he turned to her and added , his eyes like steel traps in the dark lines of his face , ‘ And what at the moment is causing me some concern is one very simple but crucial question — are you bolshie , unreliable and irresponsible , too ? ’ |
| 37 | He said er , he 's getting me another metre all round less size round because it 'll be too heavy in that size |
| 38 | He 's getting me some fruit cup stuff . ’ |
| 39 | The muscle is giving me some grief but as long as there is no long-term damage then I am willing to play through the pain barrier . ’ |
| 40 | I decided to eat with them as Head of Primary Department is giving me this afternoon off and therefore I do n't need a break from the kids . |
| 41 | Well , mind you June do n't know what the hell she 's ringing me half the time , because she bloody rings and , half of time it 's |
| 42 | She 's telling me these little bits to write down . |
| 43 | ‘ It seems to have been following me all my life . ’ |
| 44 | Then a Rate 1 back onto 210 and descend towards the pilot ; the sun was low and that was causing me some problems ; seventy knots , no flaps in case I had to move fast , 100 feet — hold it . |
| 45 | Sadie was tellin' me that bloke they ‘ ung last year fer killin' that shopkeeper over in Stepney used ter be one o' the crowd 'er Billy 's gettin' wiv . ’ |
| 46 | Mind , it took about eight weeks to achieve that desirable state , and all they did was to give me some tablets , good food , rest and lots of kindness . |
| 47 | The sun was shining over the Gower Peninsula and the train was sending me all how-green-was-my-valley . |
| 48 | He was calling me all the time-awful things . |
| 49 | I was rather surprised that he was asking me these questions . |
| 50 | I skate down the road a bit before I shout at cops — or anyone that was giving me some shit . |
| 51 | One finger pointed up to the bright flood-light that was showing me all this . |
| 52 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 53 | And when I went out yesterday I had this horrible feeling someone was watching me all the time . |
| 54 | It was to take me some time longer to undergo the metamorphosis from a ‘ teacher ’ to a ‘ lecturer ’ . |
| 55 | She was telling me all about all of them and on the roof . |
| 56 | so she was telling me all about it and er , the times they were going , oh it 'll be nice for them |
| 57 | Somebody was telling me that . |
| 58 | ‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’ |
| 59 | Well Pete was telling me that . |
| 60 | Oh , but she was telling me that down in Belfast everybody took , they used to say to her , fuck off Margot ! |