Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] being [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dolly was obviously set on being sociable for the whole evening . |
| 2 | The study did not spring into being overnight of course , and for over a decade a number of community groups throughout Appalachia have tried to combat the worst excesses of a pattern of landownership which breeds power without responsibility . |
| 3 | " Goodness me , do n't start taking that as a compliment , she cares about everyone 's feelings , she 's an archetypal victim , she 's an absolute fool about other people 's feelings , and let me warn you , I may as well warn you , the more she dislikes somebody , the more somebody annoys her , the more careful she is not to hurt their feelings , in fact the only people she is ever rude to are people like me and Gabriel and Papa , I mean people she cares for enough not to worry about being fair to . |
| 4 | You will thus benefit from being clear in what you are aiming at and successfully achieving it more often than not |
| 5 | So if we are to think of all of this in terms of Christian joy then we must realize that joy does not come from being immune to everything else that 's going on . |
| 6 | I always erred on being over-cautious at the last , but never faulted there so obviously my caution paid off ! |
| 7 | Girls with anorexia or bulimia often feel to blame for their original ‘ weight problem ’ , then to blame for becoming too obsessed with it , and then further to blame for being unable to ‘ pull themselves together ’ . |
| 8 | Balfour & Sibbald were co-founders of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh , and Balfour is also credited with being responsible for the introduction of the paper-making industry into Scotland . |
| 9 | He repeatedly complained of being old beyond his years , and yet behind his words one senses at times an element of satisfaction . |
| 10 | And he frankly admitted to being obsessed with her sex — some of the talk she 'd heard was of cradle-snatching ; some of death-bed fucks — he played no favourites . |
| 11 | Knowing the right questions to ask often depends on being familiar with the activity in hand and on general business expertise . |
| 12 | Those who taught the ‘ liberal studies ’ components were often accused of being unsympathetic to ‘ the activities of the scientist and technologist ’ . |
| 13 | When when you talk about fearing God , you 're not really talking about being frightened of him , you 're talking about paying attention and doing what he wants you to do . |
| 14 | A fat lot he even cared about being late for church and she trying to keep up a good style . |
| 15 | I would n't dream of being late for Aunt Louise . ’ |
| 16 | He could n't admit to being afraid of a breath of air . |
| 17 | It has been expanding ever since those 70s feminists took to wearing boiler suits to prove they did n't care about being attractive to men . |
| 18 | Coffee , croissants and the morning papers had seemed very attractive on setting out , but I had n't bargained on being stuck for ages in Kilburn on the way home . |
| 19 | Well I certainly would n't worry about being rude to that to Don the train spotter . |
| 20 | From 1889 to 1906 he worked on railways in many other countries : the Central Argentine Railway appointed him district locomotive superintendent in 1894 , but in 1897 he was summarily dismissed for being late in returning from leave in England ; in 1900 he went as locomotive superintendent to the Cuban Central Railways , in 1902 to the Lagos Government Railway , and in 1904 to the Lima Railways in Peru . |
| 21 | Alexander , who resolutely persisted in being rude to his new parent , was judged old enough for boarding school six months later . |
| 22 | Hair sometimes changes from being dry to becoming greasy at this age but as likely as not will revert later to its usual condition . |
| 23 | Arguably , too , the listener to recorded music is in a position to take a more active part in the music , by deciding how and when to listen by being able to ‘ edit ’ recordings to make up his or her own programmes on cassette tape . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've never cared for being one of the crowd , ’ he said softly . |