Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish to apologize for being mangled . |
| 2 | I start to apologize for being held up at work . |
| 3 | The plan had been criticized for being geared towards extracting the optimum " harvest " from remaining forests , of lacking consideration towards forest peoples and of being slow to meet requests for assistance from developing countries . |
| 4 | What he applied for was funding for research on ‘ The influence of geometry on social behaviour ’ . |
| 5 | In the winter of 1518 all I cared about was surviving and life was hard in Paris . |
| 6 | Soon the dandelions came , all they cared about was blooming , getting their white clocks and blowing their babies far away . |
| 7 | The answer was a kick on the eyebrow which I almost mistook for being shot . |
| 8 | He says he was made redundant from his storeman job but Mrs Smith says he was sacked for being drunk . |
| 9 | He says he was made redundant from his storeman job but Mrs Smith says he was sacked for being drunk . |
| 10 | ‘ I was asking what you 'd do if you discovered someone you cared for was doing wrong . |
| 11 | But many of the symptoms asked about were reported for similar proportions of those who had been in residential homes and those who had not ; these were pain , trouble with breathing , vomiting or feeling sick , drowsiness , sleeplessness , dry mouth or thirst , depression , loss of appetite , difficulty swallowing , dizziness , bed sores , an unpleasant smell , and backache . |
| 12 | I mean the last thing we 'd think about is excluding children . |
| 13 | She writes the words : arresting images ( lives that go in circles ‘ like a pigeon on a tyre ’ ) , moments of disturbing lucidity amid inscrutable dream-imagery ( ‘ give me what I want/ And all I can think about is losing it ’ ; ‘ why ca n't you do to my insights/What you do to my insides ? ’ ; |
| 14 | For now , all she could think about was getting away . |
| 15 | All I could think about was getting back to speak to you . ’ |
| 16 | It was the last lecture of the day , and all I could think about was getting back to Chelsea Terrace . |
| 17 | Darkness aids deception , of course , although the tricks played and misdeeds committed seem to lose little of their quality of daring for being performed under the cover of night . |
| 18 | ( 198 ) above , for example , is uttered by a young lady who is recounting to her horrified mother the experience she has just had of being thrown into prison and badly treated after being arrested in a bar brawl . |
| 19 | The first appearance a child would make after being charged would be before a youth court , formerly called a juvenile court . |
| 20 | Miss Bayliss , who has a six-year-old daughter , initially refused to be searched but agreed after being told she would not be able to see her brother Michael , a heroin addict . |
| 21 | Similarly , in Moore v Central Electricity Generating Board , 1974 IRLR 296 — the facts of which may cause those interested in civil liberties some concern — an employee who had been held in custody for one month pending trial was dismissed after being convicted not of the original charge preferred but of related offences . |
| 22 | Those dismissed after being convicted by people 's revolutionary courts , however , would be entitled to reinstatement only if the verdict against them was revoked . |
| 23 | As the head of Drexel 's bond-trading department , until he was dismissed after being charged with securities fraud , Mr Milken convinced many ( mainly institutional ) investors that the higher yields on bonds that carried a below-investment-grade rating compensated for the extra risk . |
| 24 | Earlier , the former Minister for Water and Forests , Angel Algo Nchama , had been dismissed after being arrested on corruption charges ; he received a two-year prison sentence in November 1989 . |
| 25 | THE absence of reigning champion Monica Seles still recovering after being stabbed in Germany last month promises to make the women 's singles in the French Open the most intriguing contest for years . |
| 26 | A DARLINGTON bar worker was yesterday recovering after being threatened , bound and gagged in a £10,000 robbery . |
| 27 | The Rheidol line offers some of the most spectacular scenery available on Welsh railways and , as far as railway enthusiasts are concerned , the line still has much to offer even though it is still recovering after being reduced to virtual siding status in the last year 's of British Rail management . |
| 28 | A car salesman is recovering after being held up at gunpoint by a man posing as a customer . |
| 29 | An eight-year-old boy spent the weekend recovering after being knocked over by a car on Hollyhurst Road , Darlington . |
| 30 | Manager Lennie Lawrence said : ‘ Pears suffered a terrible gash and was brave to continue after being caught by a player 's studs . |