Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At around 4.45am , Mark rang the hospital and was told to bring me in when I was in pain . |
| 2 | ‘ When I managed to get upright I saw him cocking the gun again , thought he was going to shoot me again and moved towards him to defend myself . ’ |
| 3 | After 24 hours of freedom I knew no one was going to lock me up again |
| 4 | ‘ I realised no one was going to lock me up again . |
| 5 | He reflected , ‘ It was a disaster , this movie , and I knew then it was going to set me back . ’ |
| 6 | Lili looked at her squarely , and for a moment I entertained a mad hope that she would deny this , would announce that my engagement was a travesty and a cruelty , would say that she was going to take me away and teach me how to dress or to dance . |
| 7 | I did n't really think it was going to take me very long to go through that , sorry . |
| 8 | In the lobby of that hotel , on the following evening , I was to meet a Mrs Knelle , the friend of an English friend , and she was going to put me up at her house in the country . |
| 9 | Mrs Pritchard was going to put me up . ’ |
| 10 | But that ‘ phone call was going to cost me more than a Big Mac . |
| 11 | Jennifer told me : ‘ One guy wrote telling me he was going to burn me out of town , burn my house down . |
| 12 | " He was going to show me how to fold up a map properly . " |
| 13 | Clearly this artist was going to keep me fully entertained as she peered alternately at me and my picture , producing a range of squints , pouts and grimaces that Rowan Atkinson might envy . |
| 14 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 15 | That meant he was going to kiss me again . |
| 16 | But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings . |
| 17 | Maybe he thought he was going to get me back into the Church , but what I was doing was strictly pagan . |
| 18 | I thought she was going to pin me down and that would be it . |
| 19 | My start was beginning to let me down around this time — Ron and I were concentrating more on my pick-up — but I had the satisfaction of beating Calvin Smith quite comfortably . |
| 20 | ‘ Because — well , I suppose because being near you was beginning to make me very nervous . ’ |
| 21 | He was meant to phone me up at four ! |
| 22 | was meant to phone me back this morning when she 'd talked to her boss , but has n't , and I do n't know her work no. to chase her , but will let you know as soon as I hear ! |
| 23 | The reference to the tent meant either that ‘ John Parsons ’ had written it , and was hoping to see me around , or that they had teamed up on a declared truce . |
| 24 | ‘ Because someone was trying to set me up . |
| 25 | I knew he was trying to cheer me up but I was determined to go back to my knitting lessons when the vultures had gone . |
| 26 | He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable . |
| 27 | You was trying to butter me up were n't you ? |
| 28 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 29 | Somebody was trying to freak me out , and , from what I could gather , it might well have something to do with the Quigleys , with Veronica and this Mrs Danby . |
| 30 | She was trying to frighten me off , of course . |