Example sentences of "be [verb] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I thought he would , he deserves it and suddenly the semi-circle is clapping and looking at me : ‘ She 's won , she 's a-a-a won , ’ I hear John shout from half-way up the stalls , and my fellow contestants are slapping me on the back and pushing me to the front of the stage , |
2 | But I have met your brother at long last and Mrs Powers has been regaling me with the most fascinating pieces of village gossip . ’ |
3 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
4 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
5 | You 're pushing me to the limit , ’ she whispered , cringing into the brocade settle and holding her drink in front of her defensively . |
6 | Oh you want to walk on that , oh Charlotte come on then , you 're pushing me into the road . |
7 | ‘ You 're pushing me in the direction of flattery again , ’ he said softly . |
8 | You 're breaking me on the rack of your virtue . ’ |
9 | ‘ Now you are forcing me into the most obvious remark of the week : I only do what I want — within our poor human limits . |
10 | And that 's been another thing that 's been worrying me over the weekend . |
11 | The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup . |
12 | It 's been staring me in the face . ’ |
13 | ‘ It 's been staring me in the face , ’ Carlson continued . |
14 | Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often . |
15 | But I do n't mind telling young Mike here about it seeing he 'll be joining me in the business one day . ’ |
16 | ‘ People are stopping me in the street to ask about it . ’ |
17 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
18 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
19 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
20 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
21 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
22 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
23 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
24 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
25 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
26 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
27 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
28 | ‘ From what Superintending Constable Aplin 's been telling me along the way , if we can solve one , we 're likely to find the perpetrator of the other . |
29 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
30 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |