Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ By the way Bill , ’ Yanto turned enquiringly , ‘ has Bert Midgeley still got that motorbike combination you were telling me about ? ’ |
| 4 | Louise , you were telling me about Roger Clarke . |
| 5 | " What was it you were telling me about Cowslip ? |
| 6 | You were telling me about your husband . ’ |
| 7 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 8 | Is it you were telling me about you you you caught kids sniffing methane was it ? |
| 9 | Erm you were telling me about religion about the fact that you went to church . |
| 10 | You were telling me about your uncle . |
| 11 | ‘ You were telling me about a party . ’ |
| 12 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 13 | Anyway , you were telling me about meals . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 16 | He probably just assumed that you were seeing me in connection with my work . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You were watching me through binoculars . |
| 18 | You were discussing me with your girlfriend . |
| 19 | ‘ You were tellin' me about this ‘ she ’ , ’ urged Andra with relish . |
| 20 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 21 | You 'd hurt me so badly — there I was , head over heels in love with you , and you were asking me to be your mistress . ’ |
| 22 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 23 | Now she was accusing me in front of a stranger . |
| 24 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
| 25 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 26 | While she was helping me into yet another nightshirt , we talked . |
| 27 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 28 | She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train . |
| 29 | I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good . |
| 30 | When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile . |