Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [verb] to me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bu bu bu bu but what , what was happening seemed to me to be consistent with that . |
| 2 | Is that what Silvio was going to explain to me next , that you 'd agreed to pay the agency a commission but that you were going to give me — what ? |
| 3 | He taunted me , asking me if I knew what was going to happen to me on my wedding night . |
| 4 | All day I 'd felt calm , though aware that everything in Jamila 's life had changed ; and now , on the same day , if I was right about the looks on the two faces in the car with me , the same thing was going to happen to me . |
| 5 | I had never been away from Joe before , and I had no idea what was going to happen to me at Miss Havisham 's . |
| 6 | All the other girls had gone and I was left by myself — no books , magazines or anything — wondering what was going to happen to me . |
| 7 | Not knowing what was going to happen to me or how rapidly the disease would progress , I was at a loose end . |
| 8 | I did n't care where I was going or what was going to happen to me . |
| 9 | Er men were coming , young men were coming out of the forces and er they wanted their jobs back and er I began to wonder what was going to happen to me , if , because I was on the temporary staff and erm there was no guarantee that I 'd be able to stay erm , and then of course erm I was thinking of probably getting married and erm er the salary at that stage was n't er , was n't very much to get married on . |
| 10 | In fact , I was only going to stay a couple of years and move on , but … but I met you and I knew right from the beginning what was going to happen to me ; and it 's grown over these months during our supposedly accidental meetings here . |
| 11 | ‘ I found the journalist but the day he was going to talk to me he was killed by a hit-and-run driver . |
| 12 | Once or twice , at mealtimes , I thought Quigley was going to speak to me about the matter . |
| 13 | And also , if she came in when I had the triplets it meant that erm you know , she was sitting talking to me when I wanted to be playing with them and taking them out and getting on with doing things with them . |
| 14 | I looked wildly about me a hundred times , unable to think what to do ; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress , pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold , and ran to the door , without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me . |
| 15 | I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error . |