Example sentences of "me [conj] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had a little help from Barry Humphries in this , and I hope I 've paid him due credit , thought he did start that nasty rumour that he was me or I was him . |
| 2 | The mentality that got me where I was , then held me back . ’ |
| 3 | Yet he , the archer , might have gone back there to check again after all and if he had he would know I was alive , but he would never find me where I was now , deep in impenetrable shadow along a path he could n't follow in the dark . |
| 4 | With a sigh of relief I dropped my hands , because instead of Dad lying there there was the attic door which had fallen in such a way that it was wedging the door back , trapping me where I was . |
| 5 | It was n't until the final two weeks of term that it really hit me that I was actually going to have to go . |
| 6 | My mother came up to London the very next day and told me that I was never to go home again , I was never to contact Sarah again and , above all , I was never , ever to see John again . |
| 7 | He started telling me that I was an emotional cretin and to improve I 'd have to pay them a load of money to get into their reading room — at £10 an hour . |
| 8 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 9 | When I did eventually tell her she was really embarrassed , and tried telling me that I was making it up ! |
| 10 | She was screaming at me that I was going to prison , ’ said Falati . |
| 11 | It decided me that I was n't going to be good enough to make the grade . |
| 12 | As I was giving this description it came to me that I was talking about someone else . |
| 13 | ‘ Each abuse reminded me that I was worthless and throughout my life events have told me that this was so . ’ |
| 14 | My daughter told me that I was chrome yellow , and a glance in the mirror proved her right . |
| 15 | Each time I had tried to discharge myself from his surgery , he had reassured me that I was not shamming , there really was something wrong with me . |
| 16 | Six months later my grandmother told me that I was going to join my parents and that she , too , was emigrating . |
| 17 | At Gateshead Frank informed me that I was going to run in the B relay team at the meeting , and I refused . |
| 18 | I knew perfectly well when I allowed Karen Parsons to seduce me that I was not acting rightly . |
| 19 | ‘ There was a nice nun who said to me that I was Wednesday 's child , full of woe . ’ |
| 20 | Ellen had once assured me that I was only happy because I did not think too deeply , and probably she was right , but it is still that shallow contentment which makes people bring me their troubles just as the senator was now bringing me his two children . |
| 21 | Spoke my name and told me that I was about to be released . |
| 22 | My mother told me that I was cold because I did n't eat enough . |
| 23 | I remember many occasions when friends would reassure me that I was like them , there were n't any differences . |
| 24 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
| 25 | ‘ Then one day it dawned on me that I was running scared and it was silly . |
| 26 | It did n't help me that I was a common-law wife for 18 years and had a child . |
| 27 | When I look back , it 's impossible to pin-point a moment when it hit me that I was ‘ successful ’ . |
| 28 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 29 | We drank tea , and very often I would arrive some five to ten minutes earlier than the appointed time , so the maid would tell me that I was to wait as madame was still resting . |
| 30 | My selfconfidence had been eroded because all the time she told me that I was a failure . |