Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must take no notice of their politeness or kindness which was designed to trap me into giving information . |
| 2 | This man , Tepilit , was injured helping me with the filming of a lion hunt . |
| 3 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 4 | I think Lane was attempting to intimidate me in relation to his further questions , answers to which might otherwise be critical of the police , and in this he partly succeeded . |
| 5 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 6 | It was then that I realized that he was going to leave me on my own . |
| 7 | Then I started to get a feeling that the Lord was going to move me from my present job . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought any time she was going to ask me to be bridesmaid . ’ |
| 9 | She was going to ask me for money , I thought . |
| 10 | We sat on our stools and I smiled at him , thinking he was going to ask me about my dress or where I lived or something , and he said , ‘ Who 's your favourite philosopher ? ’ |
| 11 | He was going to take me to the derelict château he and Montaine had discovered in a clearing in one of the forests . |
| 12 | Well he does n't know where I live at the but it came up in court that he was going to take me to court for access , making it out as though it was my fault that he had n't seen Ricky , I was stopping him from seeing Ricky when it 's his own fault . |
| 13 | It we he phoned at it was , it was five to six , Jim was going to take me to aerobics because of the weather |
| 14 | He found a tutor in London who was going to coach me for University Entrance . |
| 15 | Perhaps he was going to touch me for the air fare home . |
| 16 | Deeply afraid that this man was going to put me in a cage . |
| 17 | I would feel bad if I knew for certain that someone was going to cosh me with a lead pipe on January 15 of that year . |
| 18 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 19 | I thought everyone was going to recognise me on the street , ’ Now his favourite leisure activities are watching television — ‘ I call it my sofa therapy ’ — and having friends over for dinner . |
| 20 | He was going to kiss me at his sister 's , Meredith thought . |
| 21 | He was going to sack me on the spot . |
| 22 | Admiral Paul Rowe , of Rotherham Starfleet Command , was waiting to meet me from the train . |
| 23 | I mean look at myself , my father was a doctor , his father was a schoolteacher , so the way one used to look at things , that immediately when I was born put me in the middle class erm bracket . |
| 24 | While he was thinking how to do this , he was asked to bring me to the palace . |
| 25 | Sometime around the middle of the week , Dr MacLennan was allowed to see me for a while , after Diggs overruled my father 's refusal to have me medically inspected by anybody else but him . |
| 26 | On the morning of 9 January 19571 was working at the Treasury when a message was delivered summoning me to Number 10 at 3 o'clock . |
| 27 | However , my secretary , ex-pupil Peter Vroomking , was to have provided me with a typed list , which has not materialised … on the other hand , Peter has recently been discovering himself as a human being … and I am sure those of you who are still here will wish to join me in congratulating … could somebody stop that door banging ? |
| 28 | There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground . |
| 29 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own — um — illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about . |
| 30 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … you are facing up to yourself in a very moving and powerful way … ’ |