Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And it was getting dragged back and the engine was going like mad trying to push it along and the wind was pushing me back , and I was thinking am I going forwards or backward here ? |
| 2 | The wind was driving me further out to sea and my boat began to fill with water . |
| 3 | ’ I do n't recall you being so keen to leave while your lover-boy was knocking me around in Fif 's last night ’ . |
| 4 | So the school 's first job was to cut me down to normal proportions — which they did . |
| 5 | As I got closer to the raised platform at the far end of the church , it was as if the sound was pushing me forward . |
| 6 | I did n't know whether my imagination was leading me astray when you seemed to be implying something like that . ’ |
| 7 | Old Red was studying me clinically . |
| 8 | Some time later , my headache had receded , my costume was discarded and my bunk was clasping me as tenderly as a mother 's arms . |
| 9 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 10 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
| 11 | In retrospect then it is the final remark in that poignant description of Athman by the river which is the most telling : ‘ tor a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair ’ . |
| 12 | A quick sideways prod of the transfer gear-lever was all that I needed to give the big machine the traction of a funicular railway , as if an invisible cable winch was hauling me up . |
| 13 | It may only have been the milestone of hitting thirty , but I could n't help feeling that it was proof that life was passing me by . |
| 14 | ‘ I felt the whole world was swallowing me up . |
| 15 | Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere . |
| 16 | Dad , do n't worry if Mum was telling me off will you over will you ? |
| 17 | The thought of inserting the diaphragm was worrying me quite a bit . |
| 18 | er a local chap was rung me up yesterday Well rang me up |
| 19 | My faculty of speech was deserting me along with my other powers . |
| 20 | ‘ The fact was passing me by until now . ’ |
| 21 | For a moment I considered bolting , but I noticed that a young reptilian reception-clerk was watching me narrowly , as if he thought I might roll up a carpet and try to carry it out under my arm , and I became instantly obstreperous . |
| 22 | The extraordinary atmosphere was keeping me so sky-high that my private feelings for John seemed to have detached themselves and slipped out of reach . |