Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] me for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're paying me for forty hours . |
| 2 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 3 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 4 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 5 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 6 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 7 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 8 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 9 | If she 's not polishing the auld bits and pieces , she 's naggin' me for new curtains ! ’ |
| 10 | The honourable gentlemen is asking me for procedural advice across floor of the house , which he knows that I do not volunteer . |
| 11 | I 'd caught a glimpse of my face in the hall mirror once , when Gav was berating me for such rakish tendencies , and I 'd been smiling . |
| 12 | I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good . |