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Example sentences of "was [verb] me " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	She was trusting me not to do that , putting that power in my hands .
2	I suppose it was seeing me in ‘ his ’ shirt .
3	I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on .
4	I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on .
5	she would , she was seeing me do it and I respect what she says and I do what I 'm told no she did n't say that
6	I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later .
7	‘ What the sack did was make me very determined that next time round that I 'd do a better job .
8	Even though he was old enough to be my father and now walking like an old , old man , every feminine instinct I possessed was reminding me most pleasantly that he was neither my father nor an old , old man .
9	I mean technically we do have an entitlement to visits in that Janet was was reminding me the other day that that we said , when Deborah was here , that everybody was entitled to four visits a year .
10	But , this one , that 's close to me or whatever mum 's saying there remi , was reminding me of that Der der der
11	I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever .
12	I could hear you in the heather , saying " Not far now " and it was annoying me .
13	Because he was annoying me , he was right up my arse !
14	But by far the best gift was given me by a little red-haired girl , Betty , who gave me ( a virgin boy ) her body .
15	I knew this to be true and believed firmly that when the word was given me in 1986 it would be fulfilled some time in the future .
16	ALL THAT WAS GIVEN ME WAS THE MATTER OF THREE SCENES , AND THE CENTRAL IDEA OF A VOLUNTARY CHANGE BECOMING INVOLUNTARY .
17	A graphic example was given me when on my first day of lecturing in a college of education a student came up and earnestly asked me : " Do you believe the Bible — yes or no ? "
18	That was totally unplanned. erm I was told by a friend that there was erm Pebble Mill were going to organise an Environment Project Competition for Great Britain , and they suggested I sent for a form , which I did , and filled it in , and erm to my astonishment a film crew came down and filmed the pond , and later on I was invited with my husband to Pebble Mill to get this award and it was given me by Virginia Mackenna and Bill Waters , and David Bellamy was there , and erm we had a wonderful time .
19	How happy she was to see me !
20	that was taught me by my grandmother , Annie Scanlon .
21	While she was helping me into yet another nightshirt , we talked .
22	The Fat Controller was helping me to my feet .
23	She was helping me with the french .
24	Yes he thought you were at college today because I said no , I said erm it 's Tuesday he goes cos Kathy said oh your dad could of come on Monday , oh what 's this lad 's name who was helping me today ?
25	As one recently retired 62-year-old put it : ‘ I had hardly had a chance to enjoy a couple of days pottering in the garden for the first time in years , when my wife was nagging me to go out and find something to do .
26	Now she was accusing me in front of a stranger .
27	Now I was in a position to move on ; but something had taken root deeper than the superficialities of travelling — a feeling that my story was not here , that something was drawing me back to Peru .
28	Twenty years later , Charles reminded an assembly of how " a part of the realm was assigned me by my lord and father … and in it the metropolitan see of Sens then lacked a pastor .
29	It was smelling me .
30	She she you know she was slagging me off like anything right .