Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] me [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 2 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 3 | Until the mishap he was giving me a great feel and I was delighted how he was going in the blinkers . ’ |
| 4 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 5 | ‘ All I do know is that when we were on the way here he was asking me a great many questions about what went on in the village . |
| 6 | He was showing me the ships that were lost in the battle . |
| 7 | It was almost as if he was doing me a favour by not sentencing me for more , even though it was only one specimen charge of supplying . |
| 8 | It was only a wolf-whistle — he was paying me a compliment . |
| 9 | He was offering me the trip of a lifetime , and all I had to do was take care of the meals . |