Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She was only paying me back for what I did for her , and she should have gone on paying me back . ’ |
| 2 | And this thing was just dragging me down you see ? |
| 3 | I always thought he was just having me on . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That incident was where we had a free-kick on our half-way line and he was just marking me tight , and there was a bit of bantering going on between us . |
| 5 | And Kenny Everett , who used to host the programme before mine when I was doing Family Favourites on Radio Two , was forever sending me up with his impersonation of Michael Aspirin — or was it Mike Collapsible ? |
| 6 | I realized as I turned its pages that this was probably telling me more about the country and its people than my actual visit . |
| 7 | By Christmas it was really getting me down but I had to keep going . |
| 8 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 9 | My distended bladder was n't helping matters , but it was n't holding me back as much as I 'd feared , either . |
| 10 | but around 1950 I began to realise that this was n't getting me anywhere , so I gave up painting with oil paints and began instead to draw with oils . |
| 11 | ‘ I think Hasan was about to throw me down the cliffs out of his cave ! ’ |
| 12 | There was no stopping me now . |