Example sentences of "was [verb] me " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | That is the last time I shall put myself at a loss or disadvantage for her , she decided , unable as she was to thank me . |
| 32 | I sat for it at Sutton Place — he did n't clown around when he was painting me , but talked of David , Ingres , Velázquez . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ He was denying me , ’ John snaps . |
| 34 | All the time Miss B. was rowing me I thought ‘ Dire was the twang of his silver bow ’ out of Iliad Six , and she said ‘ I 'm surprised you think it a smiling matter . ’ |
| 35 | I was fuming me . |
| 36 | ‘ As he was knocking me all around the ring , ’ said Holyfield , ‘ I thought he 'll miss soon and maybe I 'll get the chance to knock him out . ’ |
| 37 | ’ I do n't recall you being so keen to leave while your lover-boy was knocking me around in Fif 's last night ’ . |
| 38 | And he was crowding me , pushing against me . |
| 39 | It never occurred to me that he was protecting me . |
| 40 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 41 | All they were told to do was let me know if you became engaged . ’ |
| 42 | right , she was squashing me , she was squashing me right here |
| 43 | right , she was squashing me , she was squashing me right here |
| 44 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 45 | With my new label of ‘ blind ’ came the object which was to stigmatize me more , a shiny new , long white cane . |
| 46 | Watching Maureen feed very small birds who were unable to do it for themselves was to stand me in good stead later , when I began breeding barn owls . |
| 47 | On the contrary , given the formidable powers he had shown to me , I rather suspected that even during his absence he was keeping me under observation . |
| 48 | The extraordinary atmosphere was keeping me so sky-high that my private feelings for John seemed to have detached themselves and slipped out of reach . |
| 49 | If I did n't want it he would say that he was keeping me and the least I could do was give him sex . |
| 50 | er a local chap was rung me up yesterday Well rang me up |
| 51 | And the noise they would make as well — it was driving me crazy . |
| 52 | It was this nagging feeling that was driving me to Kano and had increased my daily average to 19.6 miles . |
| 53 | One particular bird was driving me crazy . |
| 54 | Finally , it got to the point where he was driving me nuts , because I could n't even find out the reason he was screaming so . |
| 55 | Gyggle was driving me along the coast road to Brighton as he spoke . |
| 56 | The wind was driving me further out to sea and my boat began to fill with water . |
| 57 | The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio . |
| 58 | He said to me once , when he was driving me to school , that there was nothing left to believe in these days . |
| 59 | one of the things that was driving me mad in last part of my career was , I was responsible for documentation , the fuel issues on the , round a thousand of gallons a day . |
| 60 | ‘ The Hall of Fame , ’ she later confided , ‘ was driving me nuts out there . |