Example sentences of "be [v-ing] me [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 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 4 | You 're pushing me to the limit , ’ she whispered , cringing into the brocade settle and holding her drink in front of her defensively . |
| 5 | Oh you want to walk on that , oh Charlotte come on then , you 're pushing me into the road . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're pushing me in the direction of flattery again , ’ he said softly . |
| 7 | You 're breaking me on the rack of your virtue . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Now you are forcing me into the most obvious remark of the week : I only do what I want — within our poor human limits . |
| 9 | And that 's been another thing that 's been worrying me over the weekend . |
| 10 | The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup . |
| 11 | It 's been staring me in the face . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's been staring me in the face , ’ Carlson continued . |
| 13 | Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often . |
| 14 | But I do n't mind telling young Mike here about it seeing he 'll be joining me in the business one day . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ People are stopping me in the street to ask about it . ’ |
| 16 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I thought you were taking me to the police station . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 22 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 23 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 24 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
| 27 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 28 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 29 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 30 | But , I know black people who are watching me in the audience or on the TV are thinking it 's a black versus white thing . |