Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
| 2 | Clever as he was , he was n't sufficiently clever to see this , and his assumption that I was half-witted made me stubbornly worse . |
| 3 | He had told me what he had to say about the murder and was free to call me again any time . |
| 4 | Peace Corps was willing to send me off to Honduras , but I did n't feel right about it . |
| 5 | I tried to sell it , but no one was willing to offer me more than five shillings , so Bob uses it for picking up the produce from the market every morning . ’ |
| 6 | was supposed to pick me up from work , okay ? |
| 7 | Yeah , but she gets more allowance this week cos she was supposed to give me bloody thirty five quid she owes me . |
| 8 | At least no person from Porlock was likely to interrupt me today . |
| 9 | For nearly two years , Shanti was reluctant to let me out of her sight , and would follow me from room to room , into the bathroom , wherever it might be . |
| 10 | He was a young er man er who was just er a young boy , he was promoting records and trying to get into the business and , and er he remembered me well , and when they found out that I was n't easy to , to reach , no-one knew where I was , he was able to track me down and when he told me that er I had this big hit record , I thought it was someone playing a joke on me , because here in America , they have a television show called The Blue Bird , where they play jokes on people and , and tell them things , and then they videotape you and then there 's a funny reaction that this is a big television show . |
| 11 | Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket . |
| 12 | When she arrived , shaking the snow off her shoes , she was shocked to find me there . |
| 13 | She was just using the fact that I was desperate to hold me up for an outrageously high fee . |
| 14 | I made a lot well , three prints a year on average is n't much but it was enough to keep me economically viable . |