Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing about the business miles , you were right to ask me the business miles |
| 2 | The fans were right to give me stick but they 've been good to me and it 's great to come off to a reception like that . ’ |
| 3 | And you were right to reproach me over McAllister . |
| 4 | ‘ You were right to recommend me to check on British right-wing organizations , General . |
| 5 | They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’ |
| 6 | Well , you know , apart from anything else they always they were prepared to give me free tickets for the would never do that . |
| 7 | In practically every case the publishers were prepared to supply me with information which was not generally made public . |
| 8 | This meant that people were prepared to offer me a sequence of positions in which I only had to do research without having to lecture . |
| 9 | ‘ And if I had known , even just that you were free to love me if I could persuade you to , I would n't have been so — ’ Breaking off , Luke was once again silent for several seconds . |
| 10 | They were afraid to take me any more . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll also show the other managers they were wrong to ignore me . |
| 12 | ‘ Essentially they did n't know me from a hole in the ground when I first approached them and were willing to give me the benefit of the doubt . |
| 13 | He said recently : ‘ I would not say no if United were willing to release me . |
| 14 | The farmer and his family were delighted to watch me eating food with my own small knife and fork . |
| 15 | And when I arrived home in England , after being away for five years , my wife and children were delighted to see me , because they had thought I was dead . |
| 16 | Since then I have always had trouble with films that were supposed to teach me something , or from which I hoped to learn . |
| 17 | Then I went to Cambridge and my parents could n't afford to make up the state scholarship I 'd got — they were supposed to give me £200 a year , but they were n't able to do that , so when I left Cambridge I had a £600 overdraft . |
| 18 | ‘ You were supposed to follow me . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Newcastle were supposed to contact me over the weekend , but I have n't heard anything , ’ rapped McGraw . |
| 20 | One grandmother in this position wrote , ‘ I thought they were lucky to have me , but they were not grateful at all . |
| 21 | Nothing could be worse than the life I was leading at present , I thought , where the pressures from being homeless and unemployed were likely to force me into a series of criminal acts which would result in prison , or vagrancy at the least . |
| 22 | They were glad to see me and they shook me by the hand and one of them said : |
| 23 | This faster stream chatted about the mysteries of calculus , and were happy to help me as I was anxious to he helped — but not with calculus . |
| 24 | I wandered inside ; they were happy to show me round . |
| 25 | They were happy to fly me to ‘ the land of the midnight sun ’ at any time . |
| 26 | ‘ But they were unable to chain me with their own powers , ’ he said , softly . |
| 27 | ‘ I am just eternally grateful that ITN were able to accept me back . ’ |
| 28 | The mountains of my youth were able to influence me only through the back window of a Ford Anglia , as we drove north for camping holidays in the rain . |
| 29 | Before , they had produced some good samples but this time they were able to show me some fine quality knitwear including knitted underwear . |
| 30 | They kept me in hospital for a week , even though after the first day they were able to tell me that my violent indigestion following my curry debauch had not dislodged — or even seriously inconvenienced my small passenger . |