Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this what you were wanting to see me about , Dr Darnell ? , |
| 2 | Nearby , pale young men wearing Save the Baby T-shirts were selling Let me Live tapes , Silent Scream videos , Mother Teresa postcards , ‘ precious feet ’ badges , ‘ stop doctors starving babies to death ’ stickers , Even Nice Girls . |
| 3 | ‘ And I suppose you were waiting to take me there , eh ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was always petrified they were going to call me . |
| 5 | Yeah go on you tell what you were going to ask me . |
| 6 | At Heathrow Wendy Hoyte was being met by her husband Les and they were going to give me a lift back into London . |
| 7 | ‘ For a moment then I thought you were going to give me a different name . |
| 8 | Is that what Silvio was going to explain to me next , that you 'd agreed to pay the agency a commission but that you were going to give me — what ? |
| 9 | They were going to take me back to Russia . ’ |
| 10 | Now , where did you say you were going to take me for that drink ? ’ |
| 11 | From his signs I understood that they were going to move me . |
| 12 | I thought they were going to kill me . |
| 13 | I thought they were going to kill me . |
| 14 | I was sure you were going to rape me . " |
| 15 | The other exciting thing was the leeches er because the monsoon had n't finished there were lots of leeches around , and I 'd imagined these huge things that were going to suck me to death , but they 're actually little , like , just very very tiny little worms , about erm an inch long and very thin and what they do is they sit on leaves and things and as you walk by they get flicked on to your boots or your socks and then they wiggle their way in and they , you ca n't feel them there , but what they do is they suck your blood until they explode |
| 16 | She was wearing a large muff and as they left the train Minton remarked , ‘ I thought you were going to smuggle me through the barrier in that . ’ |
| 17 | I did n't want any pity , that was the thing I was worried about : that people were going to pity me . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought , ’ Violet said , ‘ first of all you were going to tell me you were pregnant . ’ |
| 19 | He said , ‘ But you were going to tell me about the business . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I thought you were going to tell me at least that it was for my own good . |
| 21 | ‘ You were going to tell me something of Kirtlington , were you not ? ’ |
| 22 | Right , you were going to tell me about Jean now . |
| 23 | Back there , I thought you were going to strike me . ’ |
| 24 | He said you were going to change me on the medication , |
| 25 | ‘ I thought they were going to throw me out while the car was moving and I asked them to stop . |
| 26 | But then the lady came back on again — you know , the one who spoke to me first — and she said ‘ Thank you very much , ’ and she told me they were going to send me a prize of — wait for it — 5 . |
| 27 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |
| 28 | ‘ I know you were going to ring me . |
| 29 | Teacher : You were coming towards me and I thought you were going to run me over , Peter . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought you were going to undress me very slowly ? ’ she murmured , as his fingers went to the satin-covered buttons on her blouse . |