Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 32 | He guessed rightly that little Didier Bluot was leading me into the cemetery and would direct me to Montaine 's grave . |
| 33 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 34 | I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time . |
| 35 | I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
| 36 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
| 37 | I must have dropped off to sleep ; next thing , someone was prodding me in the ribs with a rifle butt , and a voice was saying , ‘ Come on , Piper . |
| 38 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
| 39 | I think Alwin and Pat use an auditor cos as you know he 's in business and I 've got a feeling that Alwin was asking me about the auditors the other day , so whether there 's would be , whoever he is , would be er willing to do it , I do n't know . |
| 40 | As chance would have it we were going camping with another family whose father was to accompany me for a day 's climbing on Pillar . |
| 41 | The answer was staring me in the face . |
| 42 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 43 | The registrar was regarding me over the top of his spectacles and trying not to look at his watch . |
| 44 | As I prowled about outside the garden wall , it came on me with a start that a young , man was regarding me over the barrel of a pistol . |
| 45 | He was regarding me with an indulgence that did not convince me . |
| 46 | Well he was poking me in the groin . |
| 47 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 48 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 49 | Siberia for me , but all they did was put me on a plane heading for Berlin . |
| 50 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 51 | When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile . |
| 52 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 53 | you was telling me about a suit . |
| 54 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 55 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 56 | All this time he was propelling me into a little room near the front door , and I was absolutely stiff with fright . |
| 57 | On the one hand what the gay movement had done was to involve me in a very intense one-to-one relationship , a couple relationship , and at the same time the ideology that the movement was instilling in me was away from the idea of couple relationships and away from the idea that sex should be conventionally tied to relationships or a single relationship . |
| 58 | yeah but he do n't get done , he does n't get done , that is the problem , the kids do n't , I 've written a letter to Mr yesterday , why they were waiting for the games teacher he was hitting Geoffrey and he gave him a dead leg , kneeing him in the leg , he said before drama , he 's got drama tomorrow he says he hates drama because the teacher takes no notice , he said one week Stuart was hitting me with a stick and the teacher just said calm down you boys , and he was being hit with a stick oh no and this I find totally disgusting and I feel like complaining about this , one of the teachers and I do n't know whether its drama yeah I think it was drama and |
| 59 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 60 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |