Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also clearly evident , in the groups that I saw being taught , as well as from my own personal experience , that the GCSE has improved children 's motivation . |
| 2 | ‘ I agree you 're as hard as granite , ’ she returned smartly , ‘ but I do n't know that I like being called a drip . ’ |
| 3 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 4 | After his liaison ended and he was alone again , he wrote simply and forlornly , ‘ I hated being alone so much that I preferred being with a bad whore to being alone . ’ |
| 5 | What was also disturbing was that I found being the centre of attention quite attractive . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not sure that I enjoy being your go between , ’ said Taheb , as she delivered it . |