Example sentences of "they were [v-ing] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 2 | I was expecting the lads soon , anyway , as they were coming to pick me up if I had not arrived by lunch-time and it was noon already . |
| 3 | They were going to take me back to Russia . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was always petrified they were going to call me . |
| 5 | I thought they were going to kill me . |
| 6 | I thought they were going to kill me . |
| 7 | From his signs I understood that they were going to move me . |
| 8 | At Heathrow Wendy Hoyte was being met by her husband Les and they were going to give me a lift back into London . |
| 9 | Only then did I realize they were going to transport me up the mountain . |
| 10 | But then the lady came back on again — you know , the one who spoke to me first — and she said ‘ Thank you very much , ’ and she told me they were going to send me a prize of — wait for it — 5 . |
| 11 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |
| 12 | Brom not Brompton Barracks , Barracks , and I saw him there first of all and then he told me they were going send me to Tidworth . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought they were going to throw me out while the car was moving and I asked them to stop . |