Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 . ’
2 After 24 hours of freedom I knew no one was going to lock me up again
3 ‘ I realised no one was going to lock me up again .
4 He reflected , ‘ It was a disaster , this movie , and I knew then it was going to set me back . ’
5 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 .
6 I did n't really think it was going to take me very long to go through that , sorry .
7 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 .
8 Mrs Pritchard was going to put me up . ’
9 But that ‘ phone call was going to cost me more than a Big Mac .
10 Jennifer told me : ‘ One guy wrote telling me he was going to burn me out of town , burn my house down .
11 " He was going to show me how to fold up a map properly . "
12 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 .
13 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 ’ .
14 That meant he was going to kiss me again .
15 But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings .
16 Maybe he thought he was going to get me back into the Church , but what I was doing was strictly pagan .
17 I thought she was going to pin me down and that would be it .
18 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 .
19 ‘ Because — well , I suppose because being near you was beginning to make me very nervous . ’
20 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 .
21 ‘ Because someone was trying to set me up .
22 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 .
23 He was trying to put me off the scent , perhaps , trying to explain , trying to seem reasonable .
24 You was trying to butter me up were n't you ?
25 When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train .
26 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 .
27 She was trying to frighten me off , of course .
28 Only now have I come to understand what it was my sixth sense was trying to tell me then ; in any case it would have been too late , Aunt Nessy was waiting , and bending down , I put my arms round her , and kissed her .
29 It may seem stupid , but it was n't until years later , when we were in Morocco , that I understood what he was trying to tell me then .
30 They will say ‘ I did n't know he was hoarding the tablets ’ or ‘ If only I had listened to what he was saying , maybe he was trying to tell me how he felt , and I was always too busy to listen . ’
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