Example sentences of "[conj] she be [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Except that she 's missing me , ’ Robbie said . |
| 2 | She stopped abruptly , perhaps fearing that she was boring me . |
| 3 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 4 | John wrote to Hanns at the end of May that Tamara Karsavina , a former star of the Diaghilev Ballet , was planning to use Brae and Carter in a ballet ‘ for some small society … and it 's then to be repeated when Alan Carter is away on tour — and she 's trying me out ! |
| 5 | ‘ The tenant 's a friend and she 's letting me use this place while she researches a book in Italy . ’ |
| 6 | Cos she 's got a friend over and she 's ignoring me . |
| 7 | and she were telling me the guy that runs it wo n't let them talk to the customers , said that was pig ignorant surely |
| 8 | 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 ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 10 | I was talking to a screw one day and she was telling me that when she 'd wanted to get work in prison she thought she 'd be there to help prisoners . |
| 11 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
| 12 | We were sitting there and she was telling me about Brian . |
| 13 | you know , this woman that I , goes down the school that talks , who I talked to , she knew from Peterborough and I think she 's German , she 's got an accent , I 'm sure for certain she 's German , anyway she 's got twins in Robert 's class and she was talking to me today and she was telling me her husband moved out to move from Peterborough with his job so I said what does he do ? and she said he 's a scientist , so I said oh is he ? , |
| 14 | The knitting was in her lap and she was regarding me steadily over the spectacles . |
| 15 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
| 16 | Well I do n't know , but she , I said , cos she 's telling me about her coming , only three days up the hospital then she 's got ta go back to her own place because Ian said she 'd never managed , she keeps falling and she said this woman never went to see her once when she was in hospital , yet she 's getting paid it look all the time , and she ought to go to see if there 's anything she wants you see |
| 17 | Fifty pound 'll go to the fre exchange cos she 's giving me a hundred . |
| 18 | Cos she was expecting me to trot out something like , yes both my parents went to grammar school like everybody else whose parents went , you know , they were all saying , yes my parents went to grammar school and they got these and these have got these qualifications and everything , I could n't believe it though , there 's a load of people in our class and like you know , all the parents are all these things and they 're not exactly brilliant , the children |
| 19 | I 've put in stuff for her from all over , and she always thanks me , not like she was paying me at all . |
| 20 | Mrs Goreng presented the idea like she was doing me a big favour , giving me the chance to teach the future malai President . |
| 21 | I have a servant who helps me but always I wonder if she is telling me the truth or merely being kind . ’ |
| 22 | It was as if she were giving me some hyacinth bulbs and saying December was a bit late to plant them . |
| 23 | If she was ribbing me she was doing a swell job . |
| 24 | She has n't had any more visions but she was telling me that she sometimes has dreams . |
| 25 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 26 | Oh , but she was telling me that down in Belfast everybody took , they used to say to her , fuck off Margot ! |
| 27 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 28 | ‘ But she puts you in charge of me because she 's leaving me alone in her house ! |
| 29 | ‘ I hit her so hard because she was choking me . |
| 30 | While she was helping me into yet another nightshirt , we talked . |