Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to take pictures of demonstrations in front of the American Embassy and the Americans were pushing me around worse than the Iraqis . |
| 2 | ‘ You were tellin' me about this ‘ she ’ , ’ urged Andra with relish . |
| 3 | They put the ideas together and I suddenly became aware that they were teaching me about substitutionary atonement . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes . |
| 5 | I knew they were discussing me in private , but I was seriously alarmed when I discovered what they had decided . |
| 6 | But , this one , that 's close to me or whatever mum 's saying there remi , was reminding me of that Der der der |
| 7 | I knew this to be true and believed firmly that when the word was given me in 1986 it would be fulfilled some time in the future . |
| 8 | Watching Maureen feed very small birds who were unable to do it for themselves was to stand me in good stead later , when I began breeding barn owls . |
| 9 | Another solution to the problem of gaining height was told me by one of my respondents , who dreamed of climbing a high flagpole . |
| 10 | I 've put in stuff for her from all over , and she always thanks me , not like she was paying me at all . |
| 11 | She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was asking me about some man called Payne who seems to have died years ago . |
| 14 | The ragged hole appeared in the beard again ; it occurred to me that the shrink was baiting me in some way , teasing me . |
| 15 | This I 'm pleased to say is being done , a meeting has been arranged with British Aerospace , it should have taken place on Monday er Mike was deputizing me at that meeting and I 'm waiting to see what the outcome of that meeting is . |
| 16 | Jeanne , the Vitou 's only daughter was being prepared for evacuation , but my newly found knowledge in medicine and sociology was making me over optimistic . |
| 17 | Once she had managed to enter that cupboard successfully without any fear or panic , she was to telephone me for another appointment . |
| 18 | I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good . |
| 19 | I wondered what Connie Fraser thought about living in a place like that , and whether she was watching me from one of the dozens of balcony windows that faced the front . |
| 20 | His approach was to nudge me in certain directions , and very quickly I came to a number of revelations . |
| 21 | But as I went on reading I found that was n't what Clem was telling me at all . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And , say , Curtis was telling me about these things , these weird things . |
| 23 | My boss was telling me about some old boy right he had a beard for all his life yeah ? |
| 24 | So everybody was telling me about this so I went away over and had a look at it . |
| 25 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |