Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] about [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's the one who taught in Ohio me the important things I needed to know about being a man . ’ |
| 2 | She loved fantasising about being his wife , wearing big hats , being chauffeur-driven and waltzing through the door of Number 10 if he got to be Prime Minister . |
| 3 | Well , he could understand that , but he still thought it was a wasteful way of keeping the lower ranks occupied , and it did n't square at all with the continual excuses the seneschal and his minions kept making about being under-staffed . |
| 4 | RAPE LIE OF LOLITA LOVER ( ‘ A father of Two … was held and questioned for 24 hours before the girl confessed she had lied about being raped ’ ) . |
| 5 | She looked away from him , a faint blush beginning at her jawline , and he knew she was referring to the fact that he had not betrayed her , even though he knew she had lied about being with her mother in Wales . |
| 6 | All Marion 's life he had grumbled about being both a father and a mother to her and when she was small she had felt that he was cross with her . |