Example sentences of "[verb] being [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried being John Carradine earlier this evening , but it did n't get me anywhere . |
| 2 | He sold his bicycle and stopped being Uncle Bill 's best pal . |
| 3 | Gloucestershire County Council had been told to cut services to the tune of almost ten million pounds or face being poll tax capped . |
| 4 | I would n't mind being M D of an electronics firm . |
| 5 | But desperate times call for desperate measures , and in response to post-Aids paranoia/homophobia , artists ( gay and non-gay ) have begun to use bodily fluids in their work , the best known being Andres Serrano , who , for a show a couple of years back , photographed his own ejaculations . |
| 6 | She did n't have to like it , any more than she had to like being Vanessa Vail , but there was no way she could evade the responsibility without racking up a seed of guilt that would sprout and eat at her Dreams . |
| 7 | There he became a world champion in a year filled with controversy and difficulty and there he learned that he neither really liked being world champion ( it was inhibiting ) nor really driving fast cars as fast as he was expected to ( they were thoroughly frightening ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Marianne likes being Queen Bee in the hive . |
| 9 | Parliamentary committments include being Shadow Defence Spokesmen on Northern Ireland and promoting the case for an elected House of Lords . |