Example sentences of "be [v-ing] me from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He figured all the time he was talking he 'd be keeping me from smashing up his hand with the gun-butt . |
| 2 | Brian Hawker , both a spiritual director and pastoral counsellor , says , ‘ spiritual direction is dealing with eternal realities , pastoral counselling is dealing with problems in the here and now which are blocking me from looking at eternal realities ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ And you were fighting me from the moment we met again . ’ |
| 4 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 5 | ‘ It was Bernard , who had been watching me from his office and asked me if I had ever thought of a career in modelling . ’ |
| 6 | Ozymandias , whose famous admonishment has been haunting me from Day One , seems to lurk round every corner , laughing up his sleeve . |
| 7 | and when she went over she says er school being off , she heard er David saying something about well nobody 's keeping me from my ironing . |
| 8 | He says that I never feel randy these days , that I 'm ‘ cold ’ , and that the anorexia is stopping my hormones , which he says is stopping me from feeling sexy . |
| 9 | Thus in one moment the veil which had been preventing me from seeing you as you are had been lifted . |
| 10 | She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train . |
| 11 | I dreamt that my mother was calling me from the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |