Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were trying to help me put the names in place , without finishing it off . |
| 2 | That he was going to let me go , even . |
| 3 | I was damned if some nineteen-year-old pipsqueak with zits and a clip-on tie was going to make me feel loathsome . |
| 4 | ‘ I made up my mind that we were going to get married , and nothing was going to make me change my mind . |
| 5 | I closed my eyes tightly because this silly new pain was going to make me cry . |
| 6 | Thoughts of gangrene and amputations terrified me until , after seventeen miles , I reached camp , where Mick was waiting to make me forget myself . |
| 7 | 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 . |