Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had businesses and lots of youth groups contacting me extremely interested in going out in the boat . |
| 2 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 3 | There was one big mango tree , a couple of coconut palms , their tufted branches reminding me of Mother 's feather duster . |
| 4 | I received a letter from one of the repetiteurs informing me emphatically that the chorus thought the music was very bad for their voices . |
| 5 | ‘ And are my eyes deceiving me or are you not the girl who ruined the broomstick display last year ? |
| 6 | My reflex actions had never failed me , as if these were computerised signals informing me that immediate action was vital . |
| 7 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |
| 8 | I had no way to deal with thirst , heat , dist and all the other miseries afflicting me . |
| 9 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 10 | Agrippa 's black cat sat beneath one of the heavy , gold-encrusted arrasses , crouched like a panther , his amber eyes studying me as if I was a mouse . |
| 11 | ‘ It must be my sins making me restless , unless it 's something I ate . ’ |
| 12 | mm , mm my shoulders hurting me |
| 13 | Or were my ears playing me up ? ’ |
| 14 | Suzie waits , her green eyes watching me . |
| 15 | I have received literally thousands of letters from readers telling me of their successes . |
| 16 | Then she lowers the paper cylinder and stands watching me again . |
| 17 | ‘ Every day I have kids tormenting me because they know I live alone , ’ she said . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I can remember being asked to run the mile at school and my parents encouraging me not to stop ( try hard ) . |
| 20 | I have scarcely even been without natives accompanying me who also shoot with facility . ’ |
| 21 | The two French Commandos accompanying me steered me away from these scenes . |
| 22 | The heads of the Valuation Department guaranteed me enough work to justify my continued employment , one of my many visits taking me to the Channel Islands during the ‘ phoney war ’ , while the enemy were occupied with Russia . |
| 23 | But I got myself straightened out and I was in the mood then to write some words , get into being into the music , get the tunes making me groove . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , no , ’ I sarcastically retorted , ‘ just some French bravos welcoming me to this Godforsaken city ! |
| 25 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 26 | As I began to serve more regularly I became more accepted amongst the older stalwarts of the service , my naval experience and general seamanship picked up on fishing craft and yachts standing me in good stead . |
| 27 | ‘ But where did you get that bit about Gay Times calling me ‘ the most gorgeous man in British football ’ ? ’ |
| 28 | Sure enough , she was still there , sitting on her haunches eyeing me thoughtfully . |
| 29 | They can all wait , all those stupid bitches beggin' me to strip 'em . |
| 30 | There have been other things occupying me recently . |