Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 2 | I saw a group walking towards me through the ashen darkness . |
| 3 | Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step . |
| 4 | The Sussex campus was shrinking below me into a collection of children 's play houses , then models , then crumbs , then fly droppings . |
| 5 | When I close my eyes and imagine fatherhood , I see all the standard clichés : John Jr walking with me in the park , a football dribbling at his chubby little feet ; John Jr passing me a spanner as I lie underneath the motorbike ; John Jr asking me to read him that story one more time because I read it so well . |
| 6 | So anyway , he erm had his say quite a long story and er the Chairman turned round all of a sudden and he s he could n't say the Chairman er said call him cos that 's what we call him and he said er he said erm would you like to come back to the rostrum again and he said erm you were explaining to me about an accident you had in the quarry in quarry , erm some years back and he said , I 'd like you to explain to these people . |
| 7 | Tony Visconti : ‘ At that time , we had gone into the studio to record ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , and the horrible thing that was happening to me as a producer , the nightmare of my life , was that David and Angela were becoming totally entwined and enraptured with each other . |
| 8 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 9 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 10 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 11 | There were too many strange things happening around me at the time . ’ |
| 12 | It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’ |
| 13 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 14 | It was then that I experienced a side of Max that I had not known before : he was most caring and attentive , almost maternal , getting doctors and nurses , staying with me and looking after me in every way . |
| 15 | And while I 'm doing that , the two bucks are pushing past me into the room and they 've got his shirt open and they 're really doing a number on him . |
| 16 | Kids were pushing past me down the corridor , all shouting and yelling to each other , and Kevin was carried along with them . |
| 17 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 18 | It was from KeriKeri I started the two-hour flight in a 152 that took me over Hokianga Harbour on the Tasman Sea , along Ninety-Mile Beach to the northernmost tip of New Zealand , and right above a school of dolphins swimming below me in the crystal-clear Pacific waters of Doubtless Bay . |
| 19 | Even that I believed , but the lipstick on his underpants ‘ administered by a gay dwarf in drag , brushing past me in the men 's showers ’ was a bit much . |
| 20 | By Tuesday she was flirting with me in a sweet , old-fashioned way , blue eyes as young as her memory . |
| 21 | But if you 're looking to me for a list of who really makes which strings , I 've found that asking straight questions does n't always get you straight answers . |
| 22 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
| 23 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 24 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 25 | He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed . |
| 26 | ‘ I mean the meeting , ’ she says , looking at me with a sudden trace of anxiety . |
| 27 | and she said I do n't like to tell time , she kept going , looking at me with a ca n't believe how stupid you are |
| 28 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 29 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 30 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |