Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 3 | You were trying to help me put the names in place , without finishing it off . |
| 4 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 5 | That he was going to let me go , even . |
| 6 | Forget it , I said , For a moment I thought he was going to tell me to sling my hook . |
| 7 | I was damned if some nineteen-year-old pipsqueak with zits and a clip-on tie was going to make me feel loathsome . |
| 8 | ‘ I made up my mind that we were going to get married , and nothing was going to make me change my mind . |
| 9 | I closed my eyes tightly because this silly new pain was going to make me cry . |
| 10 | Natasha 's father was there and was siding with my mother , saying how I could n't take Natasha , I was an unfit mother and how he was going to get me done . |
| 11 | Thoughts of gangrene and amputations terrified me until , after seventeen miles , I reached camp , where Mick was waiting to make me forget myself . |
| 12 | And so he 's the one who started doing this — I do n't know if you remember Rolling Stone during that period he started getting slight , not really new wave , but we used some of the constructivist thing of breaking pages somewhat and pushing things on angles or erm My favourite was his Bob Dylan spread which actually I did , but it was based on what he was trying to get me to do , where everything read left to right and everything was , you know , point sizes lined up and everything was on a column grid , but it was , when you looked at it you had to , you know , like focus on it . |
| 13 | If he did , it was n't surprising he was trying to get me Confirmed in Faith . |
| 14 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |