Example sentences of "[verb] me [conj] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to recall all the lessons Tata had taught me when I was a child . |
| 2 | She would beat me , push me as I was going downstairs , and do anything she could to try and harm me and my baby . |
| 3 | I think he was even more surprised to see me than I was to see him . |
| 4 | A few years later Enright came to see me when I was working in Kuala Lumpur and he was Professor in Singapore . |
| 5 | Aye , well I seen him , He came up to see me when I was in , |
| 6 | I remember many occasions when friends would reassure me that I was like them , there were n't any differences . |
| 7 | I knew perfectly well when I allowed Karen Parsons to seduce me that I was not acting rightly . |
| 8 | Next came a terrace of three three-storey houses , in the first lived the Salisburys , the name always amused me when I was small . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , the old man battered me when I was a kid , ’ Frank said , and laughed again . |
| 10 | If you would fancy me if I was one . ’ |
| 11 | He asked me whether I was a country person I asked what the qualifications were he said country born and bred , well I was born in Liverpool spent my childhood and early adolescence in rural Nottinghamshire , moved to Highfields , emigrated to the West Indies and now live in sub rural Blavey so I do n't know whether I qualify as a country person or not , but I 'd like to bet that I 've milked more cows by hand than he has if that 's any qualification . |
| 12 | Ivy remarked : ‘ Rose Macaulay asked me if I were a good walker and I said I was . |
| 13 | She asked me if I was happy here and I sighed . |
| 14 | At Festival time 1983 , Fania Williams , who had just taken over the Tron in Glasgow , asked me if I was interested in fairy tales . |
| 15 | ‘ John came up to me , asked me if I was in pain then took hold of the jack , ’ said Mr Trueman , of Chaddesden , Derby . |
| 16 | ‘ But several days later he came straight out with it and asked me if I was on the Pill and would I go on holiday to Scotland with him . |
| 17 | He asked me if I was sure I was n't working up some kind of plot against the Threarah and he got awfully angry and suspicious . |
| 18 | For instance , once when a friend from Australia was coming to stay with me , she asked me if I was going to sleep with her . |
| 19 | He asked me if I was willing to let Jehovah into my life to which I replied , ‘ Only if he can score goals ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Finnan asked me if I was spoken for by you . ’ |
| 21 | Nobody asked me if I was there , and it would do my career no good at all to have my name mentioned in a murder case . |
| 22 | ‘ Your nephew asked me if I was the one you were going to marry , ’ she blurted out as she averted her eyes from the probing intentness of his . |
| 23 | He asked me if I was English , and 1 told him Irish . |
| 24 | ‘ A director asked me if I was a gardener and when I said not , he said it was ostentatious . |
| 25 | The mentality that got me where I was , then held me back . ’ |
| 26 | " Well , she waylaid me as I was leaving after seeing your Toby , and asked me to give you a message . |
| 27 | there 's a horse erm in some of the fields just coming out of Morpeth towards Newcastle and I saw , pardon me as I was on the bus like yesterday coming into Morpeth and this horse just shot out of nowhere and it was really enjoying itself ! |
| 28 | On this occasion something had delayed me and I was late . |
| 29 | The only thing we had argued about recently was the motorbike , which he said he would buy me when I was a bit older . |
| 30 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |