Example sentences of "he was [verb] me [Wh adv] " in BNC.

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1 I was therefore concentrating very hard on what he was telling me when we both became aware of a sudden change in the atmosphere of the main office outside .
2 This was almost the first time the bloke had spoken to me about anything , never mind about 10,000m running , and here he was telling me how to run tactically .
3 However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack .
4 ‘ And , say , he was telling me how in your mother 's day there were coal fires in every bedroom and how … ’
5 once and he was showing me how to do it , I could he hardly hit the
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