Example sentences of "[was/were] going [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were going to take me back to Russia . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I thought they were going to throw me out while the car was moving and I asked them to stop . |
| 3 | Teacher : You were coming towards me and I thought you were going to run me over , Peter . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you were going to undress me very slowly ? ’ she murmured , as his fingers went to the satin-covered buttons on her blouse . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | After 24 hours of freedom I knew no one was going to lock me up again |
| 7 | ‘ I realised no one was going to lock me up again . |
| 8 | He reflected , ‘ It was a disaster , this movie , and I knew then it was going to set me back . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I did n't really think it was going to take me very long to go through that , sorry . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mrs Pritchard was going to put me up . ’ |
| 13 | But that ‘ phone call was going to cost me more than a Big Mac . |
| 14 | Jennifer told me : ‘ One guy wrote telling me he was going to burn me out of town , burn my house down . |
| 15 | " He was going to show me how to fold up a map properly . " |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | That meant he was going to kiss me again . |
| 19 | But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings . |
| 20 | Maybe he thought he was going to get me back into the Church , but what I was doing was strictly pagan . |
| 21 | I thought she was going to pin me down and that would be it . |