Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's always been that — I 've known it all my life — you 've never forgiven me for being a girl — that 's why you love Bri and you do n't love me — you wanted a boy — you always wanted a boy and all you got was a girl — all you got was me ! ’ |
| 3 | She 's forgiven me for being such an ass with my ultimatum the other day , ’ he added , then sighed , ‘ I do wish she was coming back to her flat . ’ |
| 4 | Thou twittest me with being a knave and a traitor , but then thou hast a lying tongue … |
| 5 | After the game , Hungarian officials lodged a complaint against the Newcastle team , specifically Gallacher , accusing them of being drunk and disorderly . |
| 6 | In September of that year he wrote to Pepys , Locke and other friends accusing them of being atheists or Catholics , and of trying to embroil him with women . |
| 7 | He wrote a series of letters to Pepys , Locke and other friends , accusing them of being atheists and Catholics . |
| 8 | He often says unkind things to me , blaming me for the break-up of our marriage and accusing me of being a useless wife . |
| 9 | On the one occasion on which I did so ( according to my diary ) the other girls laughed , and the teacher became annoyed , accusing me of being deliberately provocative . |
| 10 | Her voice shook with anger as she said , ‘ You 're accusing me of being underhand ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Are you accusing me of being dull ? |
| 12 | ‘ Are you accusing me of being involved with the people who did this … are you ? ’ |
| 13 | Rough was lucky to miss out on one of Scottish football 's most infamous scandals , when he missed the taxi that whisked five if his international team-mates to the notorious bender in Copenhagen which led them to being banned for life . |
| 14 | If a person has become disabled through no fault of their own and they 're not going to be provided with a benefit which would compensate them for being out of work , they will suffer enormously . ’ |
| 15 | You reproach me for being stupidly repelled by a taste of which I have never dared to become fully aware . |
| 16 | They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath . |
| 17 | … the privilege which God has given me of being a servant of Christ Jesus … |
| 18 | That is the same as pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food |
| 19 | Pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food , it just popped up to say hello , and now it 's gone back down below |
| 20 | Pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food |
| 21 | Pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food |
| 22 | Pardon me for being rude , it was not me it |
| 23 | Pardon me for being |
| 24 | Pardon me for being rude it was not me it was my food |
| 25 | Pardon me for being so rude . |
| 26 | But he got his by being murdered . ’ |
| 27 | Some of the authors were former activists imprisoned after the Tiananmen Incident who made contacts while in detention and maintained them after being released . |
| 28 | The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . ) |
| 29 | The men were too polite to accept them without being pressed a second and third time . |
| 30 | The accuser of the brethren is always on hand to accuse them of being a failure or out , of the will of God . |