Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should appreciate being allowed to return to the issue of the CAP . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll enjoy being on the same pitch as Tony Dorigo , who is probably the best No 3 in the country for composure on the ball when going forward . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think I could stand being a nurse because I would get too involved , so I hope one day to join the fire brigade , ’ she said . |
| 4 | But I know I could remember being taken round his school and in the main hall he 'd got a glass fronted cupboard , and he 'd got all sorts of well really and truly they were just pretty pebbles . |
| 5 | I could enjoy being ‘ half in love with easeful death ’ , or telling myself , ‘ I have not loved the world nor the world me ’ , or agreeing that , ‘ our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought ’ . |
| 6 | I would stop being a writer . |
| 7 | ‘ Well done , Michael , but in future I would appreciate being informed of your decisions . |
| 8 | You recognise by particularly common in children not recognised by the particular posture that they adopt and extended neck , rigid neck due to the inflammation of le , lymphees which I will resist being a reflection of the neck , completely rigidly . |
| 9 | I want to reclaim it — so I can stop being a casualty of this war that has no name . |
| 10 | I can remember being invited by him to Crystal Palace and I was just leaving the house , with my bag lovingly packed by my Mum , when the telephone rang . |
| 11 | I can remember being asked to run the mile at school and my parents encouraging me not to stop ( try hard ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I can remember being madly jealous . ’ |
| 13 | When I was fourteen I can remember being constantly nagged by her — our bedrooms were always untidy . |
| 14 | I can remember being in Australia and looking through magazines and seeing the names of the photographers who are now doing my shoots and thinking : ‘ Oh wow ! ’ |
| 15 | I can remember being taken into care when I was three . |
| 16 | I can remember being in the back of a car and I was screaming . |
| 17 | I can remember being in a cell , locked in , with nobody else but myself , crying , and a screw opening the hatch on the door and saying , ‘ What 's the matter with you ? |
| 18 | That was the last one I can remember being worked there , but I do remember Frank , where me Dad worked . |
| 19 | Just to exaggerate those three points , I know , I can remember being a student myself . |
| 20 | I mean I can remember being underneath the platform , being on fire and I mean I I just kept saying to myself that this was n't really happening . |
| 21 | I can remember being built . |
| 22 | And I can remember being frightened of the bogie man when I was a little er child . |
| 23 | Oh , more more than that , because I was , I I can remember being in school |
| 24 | But er I can remember being in Evay and a funeral there and to me it was very strange because they carried the coffin from the kirk right down to the kirkyard at the pier . |
| 25 | I can remember being made to kiss these strangers , even when I was say about nine , eight or nine , I can remember feeling quite embarrassed about having to do it |
| 26 | I can envisage being at a public local enquiry th it would not be me , where a barrister would make a great deal of an argument that York needs a regional shopping centre . |
| 27 | The only answer was to run — in the hope that I can escape being apprehended while I find out what 's happening to the project I was working on . |
| 28 | Just as you may resent being disturbed in the college library , so fellow students do n't enjoy being interrupted in the middle of some important piece of work . |
| 29 | ( This does not mean that you must love being nervous or critical ; just that you must love yourself — whatever your Ego is up to . ) |
| 30 | You must avoid being manipulated by other people or letting yourself become too dependent on others for your financial security . |