Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] of [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle Jack called to complain of being kept in the dark just when his expertise in such matters — of which Charlotte was unaware — might be most valuable . |
| 2 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 3 | Southey wrote long afterwards that he was astonished at this turn of events , since Coleridge , such a short time before , had talked of being ‘ deeply in love with a certain Mary Evans ’ ; Coleridge , on the other hand , was later to blame Southey for having persuaded him into marriage against his will . |
| 4 | Steve had talked of being a fatalist and if Fernando had the power to have them removed from the island that was fate and she was n't going to fight it . |
| 5 | For months before the shooting , Mrs Smith had complained of being harrassed by her former boyfriend Jobson , who wanted her to return to him . |