Example sentences of "she [vb -s] [v-ing] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lies watching me . |
| 2 | She loves telling me " Prevention is better than cure " , but she wo n't tell the rest . |
| 3 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That 's what she keeps telling me , ’ said Tabitha . |
| 5 | She keeps watching me . |
| 6 | She keeps giving me clothes — ; not this dear old awful thing , Mrs McPhee at home made this — and making me practise manners and the piano and I could n't tell her about last night , I could n't , I ca n't disappoint another person , not after my mother — ’ and Alexandra put her head down on to the slice of bread on her plate and burst into tears . |
| 7 | She keeps poking me in the side with every step . |