Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] being [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You reproach me for being stupidly repelled by a taste of which I have never dared to become fully aware . |
| 2 | You ought to be thanking me for being so considerate . ’ |
| 3 | Forgive me for being so mean to you ? |
| 4 | Pardon me for being so rude . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I admire them for being so up front about their religious activity because it puts them right in the front line against anti-Semitism . ’ |
| 7 | Criticizing the Greens for becoming a " bourgeois party " , Ditfurth accused them of being too keen to ally with the SPD ( in Hesse and Lower Saxony ) , and of abandoning , at a tumultuous April 26-28 congress in Neumünster ( Schleswig-Holstein ) , the rotation of party posts . |
| 8 | ‘ You accused me of being little better than a thief , a cheat , as though I 'd masterminded it all just to hurt you . |
| 9 | Last week , the right hon. Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) accused me of being unduly alarmist when I referred to the figure of 7 million Russians wanting to leave the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Carew cursed himself for being so rash . |
| 12 | He was irritated with himself for being so pathetic . |
| 13 | He stepped away from the phone , angry with Scott for disturbing him but also angry with himself for being so jumpy . |
| 14 | There was a white line around his mouth and he was watching her with undisguised lust , as if he wanted her and hated himself for being so human . |
| 15 | Not least BARRY MOONCULT who went so ape-dropping crazy , he was spotted stumbling out of the party while it was in full swing armed with a stash of joke bombs , which despite being pretty harmless ( containing about as much genuine explosive as your average cap pistol ) make a loud enough bang to put the fear of God into the most ardent of atheists . |
| 16 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 17 | Wycliffe prided himself on being reasonably fit , but by the time he was halfway up the hill he knew that he had a heart and lungs . |
| 18 | In his own bed in Mill Hill Rufus used a sheath or practised coitus interruptus , which he prided himself on being rather good at . |
| 19 | Briefly with the SAS in the Second World War , he distinguished himself by being wholly ignorant of whether a wheel nut was to be undone clockwise or not . |
| 20 | Thank you for being here . ’ |
| 21 | What was I doing admiring you for being so well-behaved , sitting there for hours content to have your arm round me ? |
| 22 | And thank you for being so helpful , officer … ’ |
| 23 | For example , ‘ I forgive you for being so patronising towards me ’ would make them feel that they were having their sins confessed to them . |
| 24 | ‘ Thank you for being so honest , Professor . |
| 25 | One night , Constance hugged her and said , ‘ Thank you for being so marvellous . |
| 26 | Thank you for being so frank . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Thank you for being so understanding , Mrs Reece-Carlton . ’ |
| 28 | So , instead , she said , ‘ I really want to thank you for being so good with Emily today . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , no , I was only teasing , and I really only came in to tell you that I 'm leaving tomorrow , and to thank you for being so kind , and — well , to say goodbye . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm grateful to you for being so frank , Mr Fishbane . ’ |