Example sentences of "she was [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Now she was accusing me in front of a stranger . |
2 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
3 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
4 | While she was helping me into yet another nightshirt , we talked . |
5 | She was helping me with the french . |
6 | She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train . |
7 | I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good . |
8 | When I turned to close the door behind me she was watching me with a faint smile . |
9 | I wondered what Connie Fraser thought about living in a place like that , and whether she was watching me from one of the dozens of balcony windows that faced the front . |
10 | Once she had managed to enter that cupboard successfully without any fear or panic , she was to telephone me for another appointment . |
11 | She was telling me about Uncle Titch . ’ |
12 | She teaches English , and she was telling me about this don who 's disappeared . |
13 | So well , I always remember it cos my missus was in the White Hart , she was telling me about it . |
14 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
15 | We were sitting there and she was telling me about Brian . |
16 | She and er she was telling me about David 's mama , she said David 's mama |
17 | Can you not see what erm er this woman fainted into my arms and she was embracing me for letting her not take her fall . |
18 | Towards the end of the thirteen-year marriage she was treating me as if I was someone the cat had brought home . |
19 | I did n't take offence , nor did I think her last question the non sequitur of a schizophrenic — Chineseness had everything to do with financial acumen — but she was treating me with the politeness she would accord a stranger who was her equal . |
20 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |
21 | I 've put in stuff for her from all over , and she always thanks me , not like she was paying me at all . |
22 | ‘ She was asking me about the criminal classes , so I was telling her . ’ |
23 | But he said , I said it as a joke when she was asking me about my flying and I said I do n't do as much flying as I 'd like to , I 've , I 've got a wife to support and she takes all the money . |