Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exercises 1–3 were designed to get me out of a rut in my playing . |
| 2 | Is this what you were wanting to see me about , Dr Darnell ? , |
| 3 | ‘ And I suppose you were waiting to take me there , eh ? ’ |
| 4 | They were going to take me back to Russia . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I thought they were going to throw me out while the car was moving and I asked them to stop . |
| 6 | Teacher : You were coming towards me and I thought you were going to run me over , Peter . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you were going to undress me very slowly ? ’ she murmured , as his fingers went to the satin-covered buttons on her blouse . |
| 8 | I was expecting the lads soon , anyway , as they were coming to pick me up if I had not arrived by lunch-time and it was noon already . |
| 9 | As soon as I came on the pitch the Rovers defenders were trying to push me inside . |
| 10 | Even at the age of about 13 I 'd be guided only by people who I thought knew something about the game , and who were not thing to stitch me up-I was always thinking people were trying to stitch me up for some reason . |
| 11 | The section that was deleted struck me as very important . |
| 12 | At around 4.45am , Mark rang the hospital and was told to bring me in when I was in pain . |
| 13 | ‘ When I managed to get upright I saw him cocking the gun again , thought he was going to shoot me again and moved towards him to defend myself . ’ |
| 14 | After 24 hours of freedom I knew no one was going to lock me up again |
| 15 | ‘ I realised no one was going to lock me up again . |
| 16 | He reflected , ‘ It was a disaster , this movie , and I knew then it was going to set me back . ’ |
| 17 | Lili looked at her squarely , and for a moment I entertained a mad hope that she would deny this , would announce that my engagement was a travesty and a cruelty , would say that she was going to take me away and teach me how to dress or to dance . |
| 18 | I did n't really think it was going to take me very long to go through that , sorry . |
| 19 | In the lobby of that hotel , on the following evening , I was to meet a Mrs Knelle , the friend of an English friend , and she was going to put me up at her house in the country . |
| 20 | Mrs Pritchard was going to put me up . ’ |
| 21 | But that ‘ phone call was going to cost me more than a Big Mac . |
| 22 | Jennifer told me : ‘ One guy wrote telling me he was going to burn me out of town , burn my house down . |
| 23 | " He was going to show me how to fold up a map properly . " |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 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 | That meant he was going to kiss me again . |
| 27 | But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings . |
| 28 | Maybe he thought he was going to get me back into the Church , but what I was doing was strictly pagan . |
| 29 | I thought she was going to pin me down and that would be it . |
| 30 | 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 . |