Example sentences of "was [verb] me [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year . |
| 2 | That place was costing me a fortune . |
| 3 | Erm , I was erm , put on just for in ninety seventy three and your question that you 're asked was and from nineteen seventy three till three years ago erm I know took my causes , I trust , put my trust in the doctors and erm over all those years I did n't realize that it was actually the tablets that was causing me the mental illness . |
| 4 | But what they did to me was give me a metronome and a theme which you play in quicker and quicker note values : triplets , eighths , sixteenths , and so on . |
| 5 | It was only a wolf-whistle — he was paying me a compliment . |
| 6 | So the retching was worrying me a bit . |
| 7 | Mat. , she had managed to give the impression authority was granting me a great favour . |
| 8 | She was tellin' me the ovver day she wants Fred ter try an' get that empty 'ouse next door ter make the place bigger . |
| 9 | He said he 'd noticed that our Mini was getting a bit down at heel , and in the light of Ken 's injuries he thought the least he could do was to give me a better means of transport . |
| 10 | Terry , of Brecon , added : ‘ Everyone was calling me a hero , but I was very wary of meeting the boss . |
| 11 | ‘ They 're likely to charge him over the weekend , so Gerry was tipping me the wink there 's no story for us . |
| 12 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 13 | It was almost as if he was doing me a favour by not sentencing me for more , even though it was only one specimen charge of supplying . |
| 14 | Mrs Goreng presented the idea like she was doing me a big favour , giving me the chance to teach the future malai President . |
| 15 | ‘ All I do know is that when we were on the way here he was asking me a great many questions about what went on in the village . |
| 16 | Jean was asking me the other day , and really , you 've told me next to nothing . |
| 17 | Until the mishap he was giving me a great feel and I was delighted how he was going in the blinkers . ’ |
| 18 | But no , it seemed to be the local name for the twenty kilo fish which was giving me a hard time , though later someone else called it a kingfish . |
| 19 | At least it was giving me a weekend on my boat . |
| 20 | came across dry ginger one of my school girlfriends was giving me a recipe , which , for which one er fo for erm ginger beer |
| 21 | At 60,000 feet it was harder to tell which was giving me the better high : the puppy poo , the Beastie Boys album or the Cessna . |
| 22 | I know what profession she 's in , and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , that was because Lesley-Jane was giving me the wrong cues . |
| 24 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 25 | The navigator was giving me the countdown ; as soon as the needles on the oil-temperature gauge started moving I would be off , making sure I took-off on time as this would be vital for the rest of the squadron . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 27 | We went the bank the other day and er the assistant manager was showing me a picture of his Range Rover . |
| 28 | He was showing me the ships that were lost in the battle . |
| 29 | Big Cassie was telling me a story about a couple of riveters that worked together , a family , brothers or cousins or something , and er she says that the guy was a riveter , he used to Maybe if the guy was on the inside holding , on the riveter on the outside this I 'm sure she said they were brothers , he would shout one of them from outside you know , shout his name and the boy would look through the hole you know , and he 's he would spit on him he would spit through the hole . |
| 30 | She was telling me a bit about it . |