Example sentences of "me [prep] going " in BNC.

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1 Lennox also hit back at critics , who claim he should have avoided the dangerous Ruddock and hidden himself away for a world title shot , snapping : ‘ I know the British fight fans will respect me for going in against the best instead of facing an easy touch .
2 He had n't the truth out of me for going on three days .
3 ‘ Can you forgive me for going away ?
4 What irritates me about going shopping in any supermarket is having to bag my own goods up .
5 Her husband muttered something to me about going to find her and then stormed off . ’
6 But er and then when television come her mother was sat over it all times and she used to tell me about going to pictures .
7 She said , ‘ The other day Silvia said something to me about going to Alghero . ’
8 And you see there 's no permanent fence to the fields and so therefore I could put gates up at that road if I wanted to , but the Council has never consulted me about going to look at it , or going over my road .
9 They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours .
10 Then he accused me of going off with everyone there , which was totally untrue .
11 ‘ It almost broke me to hear you accuse me of going to bed with you to get a story .
12 In November 1974 , it was he who talked me into going along for the audition for ‘ New faces ’ at the Blue Angel nightclub in Leeds .
13 At one time I would buy a bottle of whiskey and pour it all over me before going home because I knew she would n't try to argue if she thought I was drunk .
14 Periodically I went down into the warmth below , to write up my notes and check them over against the ship 's design plans , which Nils had produced for me before going off with Iain to talk to the Navy Yard people .
15 Now I was conscious of Aisha 's words when we stood together in the storeroom and she tried to dissuade me from going to London : ‘ Go alone to London without an aunt or a husband or your mother and they 'll say you 've sold your soul .
16 Frankie had seen it before and thought I would n't like it and tried to dissuade me from going in .
17 I often ring at this time of the night for a chat , it helps to stop me from going spare .
18 You mean , have you kept me from going out ?
19 As Reid led the patient with the bloody head indoors , the white man turned to me , almost stopped me from going inside and said in an educated voice , ‘ Good morning , Doctor , and welcome to Koraloona .
20 I could n't see his face any more with its closed , guarded expression which had kept me from going towards him ; now he was just a figure in a doorway , a symbol of home-coming .
21 ‘ There is no man or devil who will stop me from going to the home of my family , ’ said Sir Henry angrily .
22 Something happened that stopped me from going .
23 I do hope there wo n't be any emergencies to keep me from going again tomorrow . ’
24 fill me from going quarts to full .
25 The withdrawal of privileges is a very popular response by parents to non-compliance — for example : ‘ You 've been cheeky so I wo n't let you go out ’ ; ‘ You disobeyed me by going out on the road so you ca n't have that ice-cream . ’
26 Robins slightly endeared herself to me by going a little pink and gazing at the ceiling .
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