Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Palmer told the court that Mr Browning admitted being in his car at the time of the killing . |
| 2 | The job involved being in charge of ‘ country correspondents ’ in villages scattered within 25 to 50 miles around the city , editing their weekly contributions , measuring their column-inches for payments and generally supervising the rural aspect of the newspaper . |
| 3 | My job entailed being on call for shipping in the harbour and for this reason I was loath to live outside Stornoway . |
| 4 | The Mites over school age resented being with kids all the time and tried to assert their freedom . |
| 5 | Understandably , in the light of its heroic effort in 1940 and its enormous contribution to the subsequent defeat of the fascist enemy , Britain mistook being on the winning side for having won the war . |
| 6 | In the event of the name of a member nominated being on the official panel of available parliamentary candidates of an affiliated organisation the consent in writing of the Executive Committee thereof must also be obtained and sent in with the form of nomination . |
| 7 | John adored being with his grandchildren . |
| 8 | Robyn remembered being by the fountain , all those weeks ago ; he had used the very same expression then . |