Example sentences of "[vb past] being [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 2 | An unfortunate error also resulted in seventeen questionnaires with the question deleted being issued on a week day . |
| 3 | One of the more common Manhattan experiences of the early 1980s involved being approached by well-dressed individuals and asked to sign a petition helping the NAP get on the ballot in the name of democracy , and then being hit for a contribution . |
| 4 | He described being taken over the years to see his sick , and finally dying and almost certainly innocent father in another prison . |
| 5 | I found being introduced to people individually , as they arrived , much easier than going into a room full of new babies and it was good to share experiences . |
| 6 | It also helped being married to bleached-blonde ball-busting pop star Madonna . |
| 7 | Employees ' reports of monitoring for exposure to ionising radiation agreed with the industrial records , except for one mother of a case who reported being monitored , but there was no record of this in the industry databases . |
| 8 | I stopped being embarrassed about him and thought . |
| 9 | But US reporters at the military hospitals in Texas to which the US casualties are being flown said at midday yesterday they had counted 190 US wounded being flown in , with more planes on the way . |
| 10 | Soft-hearted Mrs Garwood recalled being told at Dallas airport that food procured for the contras was simply rotting in the warehouses , just as the food sent to Ethiopia in the famine had never reached the starving . |
| 11 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 12 | He imagined being shot in the water and it closing over his head , filling his mouth and lungs , the last moments of life choked out of him . |
| 13 | On March 7 the Iraqis released the first 1,000 of the Kuwaitis taken prisoner at the end of the Iraqi occupation , the total number of those abducted being given as some 7,000 . |
| 14 | Ian knew perfectly well that his father loathed being called prof , disliked intensely the way the boy went between the bathroom and his room with his towel flung over his shoulder so that he could flaunt his nakedness . |
| 15 | Frederick Bissett , Senior Scientific Officer , loathed being called Fred . |
| 16 | She loathed being parted from Ricky for a second , and Felicia , the ponies Ricky and Drew had lent her were still very green |
| 17 | Most of the ‘ congregation ’ [ he said it in such a way that it merited being put in inverted commas ] do not know how to behave , when to stand or kneel , how to express their grief . |
| 18 | Edwina faced being moved out because she could n't get on with Eddie , the tawny owl at The Grange veterinary surgery , Darlington . |
| 19 | At a private meeting in Westminster five officers of the 1922 back-bench committee were warned that they faced being voted out of office as punishment for persistent opposition to the Government on the bill to implement the Maastricht treaty . |
| 20 | Refugee children under the age of sixteen were liable to be evacuated ; refugee children over sixteen risked being interned . |
| 21 | In a unanimous decision the Irish Supreme Court on March 13 refused to return to the United Kingdom two escaped prisoners , both members of the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) , on the grounds that they risked being assaulted by prison staff . |
| 22 | On the other hand , by refraining from identifying himself he risked being bludgeoned or arrested . |
| 23 | He added that Mr Major would have warned the Queen that she risked being dragged into a political storm . |
| 24 | Those individuals that worked above or below these group norms risked being ostracised by their fellow workers ; |
| 25 | Yeltsin 's support at the forthcoming Congress , he warned , risked being diminished as a result of a campaign to deprive ministers of their powers as deputies , and he felt that he would be more useful working for Yeltsin at the Congress than in government . |
| 26 | He was a part , he said , of the illegal and dangerous dissemination of information , dangerous because those who were arrested risked being parcelled off to the Sebsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry or thrown to the mercy of the zeks in the camps . |
| 27 | Laura 's insistence on punctuality for meal times became something of a fetish , not because she was herself preparing meals which risked being spoiled ; she rarely had time for cooking any more . |
| 28 | A few people stayed loyal to the traditional beer , but they risked being scoffed at by their more fashionable friends . |
| 29 | Move to the Left , encourage mass protest , and they risked being marginalized in a revolutionary confrontation . |
| 30 | In a short campaigning season curtailed by either seasonal or financial considerations , or by both , the advantage did not lie with the attacker who , if he began a siege , risked being caught between the place he was seeking to capture and ( a constant fear ) a force coming to relieve the besieged . |