Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] being [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got harder to laugh at the weekly brace of ‘ Kurt Is Dead ’ stories when various credible sources were whispering about Cobain and partner Courtney Love doing heroin together , about them being completely out of it all at their wedding in Hawaii , about them going into detox and then quitting . |
| 2 | There are lots of screams coming from universities about them being hard done by , being cut back financially and so on so forth . |
| 3 | worried about them being so far as they 've the only child , and talked them into come down and live with us , so then I applied and got a move to just after it was built , which was a four bedroom house . |
| 4 | ‘ Both the nursing staff and the ancillary were doubtful about me being there . |
| 5 | David was n't very happy about me being so blunt , but I think in a way it made him realise that I was really straightforward and that I really did care . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's got this thing about me being so bloody cautious about everything . |
| 7 | And clearly , in terms of the fires as a particular the rationale for them being there is |
| 8 | Family therapy techniques , emphasising as they do the role of the parents and the necessity for them being fully involved in solving their own problems , were considered helpful . |
| 9 | One reason for them being so common is that they reproduce at a high rate , and their high reproduction rate is one of the main topics of this chapter . |
| 10 | The French and Spanish negotiators now spent some happy weeks agreeing how to divide up England 's overseas possessions once she was defeated , the agreement between them being formally signed on 12 April 1779 . |
| 11 | You may be responsible for my being here , but you ca n't make me stay . ’ |
| 12 | I had to make him believe there was a good reason for my being constantly in the club . ’ |
| 13 | When the Masai resident in Sanya Chini , stimulated by the activities of the Arusha-Moshi Lands Commission , formed a branch of the Tanganyika African Association in 1946 , their DO expressed extreme scepticism about their being really interested : ' … |
| 14 | It was nice to know he felt good about her being here but she wanted more than that — but how selfish of her to expect any more . |
| 15 | I have also heard a story , however , about her being distinctly unamused by some of the things written about her in the newspapers . |
| 16 | But even so , even though she was sure Rosemary must be exaggerating , her remarks about her being too glamorous in relation to her work place nagged away at her . |
| 17 | Unpleasant though it was , that was the reason for her being here , that and no other . |
| 18 | She had n't thought of a reason for her being here . |
| 19 | It is as if her costumes were the reasons for her being there . |
| 20 | As Hildyard and Olson put it : ‘ the authority of rhetorical conditions are collapsed onto the truth conditions so that if a statement is true to the facts or to the text itself , that is sufficient condition for its being interpersonally appropriate ’ ( ibid. p. 9 ) . |
| 21 | It lies in sops or bellies , surrounded by hard rocks , which will readily account for its being suddenly lost ; and these sops or bellies , being generally at considerable distances , will equally well account for the difficulty with which it is commonly regained … ’ |
| 22 | He does not say anything about its being most helpful to be allowed to create trusts using the words ‘ I do not doubt ’ . |
| 23 | I say new civilization , I do n't know that I care about its being so very different from the best that has been , but it must be as good as the best that has been . |
| 24 | So we that meant , say , that I instead of me being away from the property for about two and a half hours , taking the turf back Caffer Cliss we saved all that time . |
| 25 | Right , erm the purpose of me being here , why am I here you may ask . |
| 26 | He asserted that dinosaurs , created by God , stood at the apex of the reptilian kingdom , with ail descendants of them being vastly smaller and inferior orders . |
| 27 | ‘ Trumper , Private 7312087 , reporting as ordered , sir , ’ he bellowed , despite neither of them being more than a yard away from Captain Trentham . |
| 28 | I have this image of them being very poor . |
| 29 | Her methods also greatly simplified many of the earlier proofs , a number of them being very important in algebraic geometry . |
| 30 | Much of the damage caused by keepnets is due to most of them being too narrow , so that as the fish lashes its tail back and forth the mesh brushes the protective mucous off and gradually wears the fin away . |