Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a point when I wondered if someone was having me on , but few people even knew I had written in . |
| 2 | and , and that 's er it 's all the slowness which was doing me in . |
| 3 | With my new label of ‘ blind ’ came the object which was to stigmatize me more , a shiny new , long white cane . |
| 4 | The knitting was in her lap and she was regarding me steadily over the spectacles . |
| 5 | She she you know she was slagging me off like anything right . |
| 6 | She was trusting me not to do that , putting that power in my hands . |
| 7 | She was watching me anxiously , waiting for good old Dr. Preston to prescribe two tablets right and morning . |
| 8 | Anyhow , ’ he continued in his usual exuberant fashion , ‘ we were standing right outside Oliphants ’ Café , so I suggested coffee , and in no time she was telling me how she now lived in London , and had a flat there , and … ’ |
| 9 | I saw now she was softening me up just to ask me a favour . |
| 10 | because I 'd said this , and I do n't know whether she was sussing me out |
| 11 | right , she was squashing me , she was squashing me right here |
| 12 | Yes he thought you were at college today because I said no , I said erm it 's Tuesday he goes cos Kathy said oh your dad could of come on Monday , oh what 's this lad 's name who was helping me today ? |
| 13 | I managed some breakfast , met up with Colin 's coach Malcolm Arnold who was taking me down to the track , and we walked in the sunshine to where the buses waited to run the shuttle to the Olympic Stadium . |
| 14 | The nurse who was talking me through was wonderful , very very comforting , and by the time the next morning came around I was fine . |
| 15 | The person who was showing me how |
| 16 | Now I was in a position to move on ; but something had taken root deeper than the superficialities of travelling — a feeling that my story was not here , that something was drawing me back to Peru . |
| 17 | I mean it 's far too technical an and I , I , I would n't either , but erm it 's er as I said , it 's just er it was struck me as coincidentally since I was talking about this , this today . |
| 18 | The Factory had n't been specific ( it rarely is ) , but I had the feeling that whatever it was warning me about was important , and I also suspected it would be bad , but I had been wise enough to take the hint and check my Poles , and now I knew my aim was still good ; things were still with me . |
| 19 | It was bothering me immensely . |
| 20 | ‘ It was told me before . ’ |
| 21 | And there was a question in her voice ; it was asking me why I 'd asked such a thing . |
| 22 | Because it was making me so bad . |
| 23 | He was going to tell his mother and sister on the Friday and , to break the ice , we decided to go to the Fire Festival on Saturday ; he was to pick me up here at eight and we were going together . ’ |
| 24 | As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in . |
| 25 | I was therefore concentrating very hard on what he was telling me when we both became aware of a sudden change in the atmosphere of the main office outside . |
| 26 | This was almost the first time the bloke had spoken to me about anything , never mind about 10,000m running , and here he was telling me how to run tactically . |
| 27 | However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack . |
| 28 | ‘ And , say , he was telling me how in your mother 's day there were coal fires in every bedroom and how … ’ |
| 29 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 30 | Without speaking or smiling , he was holding me tightly round the waist , as if he would never let go . |