Example sentences of "[noun] was [v-ing] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | My craziness was going to get me my bicycle back and I was going home ; I felt immensely happy . |
| 2 | really odd dream once yeah I dreamt , I dreamt this tube of , tube of toothpaste was trying to get me and every time it hit me I lost |
| 3 | I thought the car was going to hit me . ’ |
| 4 | Those chores done , and the synthetic fabric of the precious sails covered from the ravages of sunlight , I hefted my old marine kit bag on to the dock where Ellen was waiting to ambush me . |
| 5 | Thoughts of gangrene and amputations terrified me until , after seventeen miles , I reached camp , where Mick was waiting to make me forget myself . |
| 6 | Uncle Geordie used to laugh and tell me not to be a fearedy-gowk when I said Skipper was trying to bite me . |
| 7 | But I knew they were living in the past , knew too that there was no way that Allan Wells was going to beat me . |
| 8 | The place was beginning to depress me . |
| 9 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own — um — illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about . |
| 10 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … you are facing up to yourself in a very moving and powerful way … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ : here , almost fully out in the open now , brazenly direct , we come to the gangrenous core of the rotten , shit-smeared campaign directed at me . |
| 12 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 13 | As though the voice was directly in my ear again I surfaced out of the momentary haze to hear my agent saying ‘ that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 15 | I 'd heard some of the other men in the village mention the possibility of a game reserve for tourists , and I held my breath , wondering if Kalchu was going to implicate me , as they had done . |
| 16 | I was damned if some nineteen-year-old pipsqueak with zits and a clip-on tie was going to make me feel loathsome . |
| 17 | ‘ It would have to play up just as Sybil was going to tell me something important , ’ she complained . |
| 18 | Then I started to get a feeling that the Lord was going to move me from my present job . |
| 19 | My start was beginning to let me down around this time — Ron and I were concentrating more on my pick-up — but I had the satisfaction of beating Calvin Smith quite comfortably . |
| 20 | There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground . |
| 21 | Clearly this artist was going to keep me fully entertained as she peered alternately at me and my picture , producing a range of squints , pouts and grimaces that Rowan Atkinson might envy . |
| 22 | Deeply afraid that this man was going to put me in a cage . |
| 23 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 24 | Only now have I come to understand what it was my sixth sense was trying to tell me then ; in any case it would have been too late , Aunt Nessy was waiting , and bending down , I put my arms round her , and kissed her . |
| 25 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 26 | But that ‘ phone call was going to cost me more than a Big Mac . |
| 27 | The way Jean-Claude was speaking made me anxious . |
| 28 | Wilson and I had n't had a proper meal the whole time and now my stomach was beginning to remind me there were other things in life besides Scotch and bourbon . |
| 29 | It we he phoned at it was , it was five to six , Jim was going to take me to aerobics because of the weather |
| 30 | I think Lane was attempting to intimidate me in relation to his further questions , answers to which might otherwise be critical of the police , and in this he partly succeeded . |