Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was dropped on me out of the blue , I must admit this course |
| 2 | And Cla , Claire was laughing at me yesterday , she said , you do n't have to shout at her ! |
| 3 | A LABOUR MP WAS EXPLAINING to me why there are a number of his colleagues who are sponsored as MPs by the National Union of Railwaymen , but do not appear to have any connections with trains , railway junctions or signal boxes . |
| 4 | A white-faced Mathilda sped by me in the gallery but Benjamin was shouting for me so I decided not to accost her . |
| 5 | Mind you , I was n't gon na tell anybody she was writing to me anyway ! |
| 6 | It was said to me recently , by a railway enthusiast , no less , that , when you have a car , the only cost in using it is the petrol . |
| 7 | In one shape or size this was said to me often in writing this book , and always by women and girls themselves . |
| 8 | ‘ I think the Good Lord was looking over me today , ’ said the 28-year-old Liverpudlian after a 5-3 victory over Thailand 's James Wattana . |
| 9 | I became aware that the celebrity was looking at me fixedly ( either trying to remember who I was , in expectation of acknowledgement , or in surprise that I should cut him dead in such a manner ) . |
| 10 | I noticed she was looking at me carefully . |
| 11 | She was looking at me again , waiting for an answer . |
| 12 | One of the social workers had come into the office and was looking at me very strangely . |
| 13 | Inspector Drew was looking at me very closely , and I felt rather like a naughty schoolboy under the stern gaze of the headmaster . |
| 14 | He was looking after me so kindly . |
| 15 | My mother 's story on the other hand was told to me much earlier , in bits and pieces throughout the fifties , and it was n't delivered to entertain but rather to teach me lessons . |
| 16 | ‘ Next thing I knew Mr. Household was rushing past me out of the door . |
| 17 | They made me feel of some value again and the warmth was flooding through me long before the kettle had boiled on the iron stove in the corner . |
| 18 | Jordi was waiting for me outside after I had a bath and changed my clothes for dinner . |
| 19 | She looked as if she was waiting for me so before she could say anything I spoke . |
| 20 | The first area is one that was raised by me rather than by counsel . |
| 21 | He was glaring at me suddenly . |
| 22 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 23 | Fiona was saying to me today at school , oh Emma can I have a bit of your height please ? |
| 24 | Er and Mark was saying to me yesterday |
| 25 | This overt intervention in our lives was experienced by me as entirely beneficent , so I find it difficult to match an analysis of the welfare policies of the late forties which calls " the post-war Labour government … the last and most glorious flowering of late Victorian liberal philanthropy " , 6 which I know to be correct , with the sense of self that those policies imparted . |
| 26 | She was staring at me imploringly , unable to move the way she wanted , the way she needed to . |
| 27 | He had swivelled round in the armchair and was staring at me irritably . |
| 28 | Alec was staring at me hard . |
| 29 | He was illustrating to me how he would play it , but I did n't catch on immediately . |
| 30 | Erm well I 've got a little cottage that was left to me up in erm North Wales that we rent out . |