Example sentences of "he was [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 2 | Everything was happening so fast — he could n't be aware of the crisis he was dragging me towards . |
| 3 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 4 | He was regarding me with an indulgence that did not convince me . |
| 5 | Do you know , yesterday he was telling me about his past . |
| 6 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's going to show me this museum he was telling me about . |
| 8 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 9 | When I went to Asdas on the first day when he was telling me about erm sales , loads of people erm |
| 10 | It 's really horrible , he was telling me about it last night , and I was really scared |
| 11 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 12 | I 'm glad I ai n't at Combe Court now — that 's where he was taking me to . |
| 13 | On the contrary , given the formidable powers he had shown to me , I rather suspected that even during his absence he was keeping me under observation . |
| 14 | He said to me once , when he was driving me to school , that there was nothing left to believe in these days . |
| 15 | He was asking me about some man called Payne who seems to have died years ago . |
| 16 | Like cos he was asking me about Shane |
| 17 | He was ribbing me about how I could never score against United under him . |
| 18 | Benjamin 's eyes narrowed as if , for the first time , he was judging me at my real worth . |
| 19 | Gyggle also had some good news for me — he was to accompany me to London . |
| 20 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |
| 21 | Well he was poking me in the groin . |
| 22 | All this time he was propelling me into a little room near the front door , and I was absolutely stiff with fright . |