Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] being [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coney Island is about staring and he seemed to enjoy being a spectacle even for dirty children with candysmeared mouths . |
| 2 | As an active Trotskyite he encouraged me to speak of the prejudice and abuse I 'd faced being the son of an Indian . |
| 3 | Until then he 'd denied being the gunman , but today pleaded guilty to the shootting . |
| 4 | This low figure he attributed to ASL being a creole , or combination of French Sign Language and at least one other sign language . |
| 5 | In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military . |
| 6 | He had his little ancestral secrets , as follows : his great-grandfather , also a William , had been buried as an 80-year-old pauper in Wylye in 1806 after a lifetime spent as a humble shepherd , and his own father , James , was to die in St Pancras Workhouse in 1862 at the end of a lively career which had included being an agricultural labourer , a french polisher , a clothes salesman , a catsmeat dealer — and a pauper . |
| 7 | Afterwards she helped to clear the table and to carry the pots through into a lean-to kitchen , the room in which they had eaten being the best parlour . |
| 8 | He had fancied being a poet when he was a boy — before he 'd been thrust out into the real world to try to earn a living . |
| 9 | He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch . |
| 10 | After being charged , McIntyre had denied being a Labour Party member . |
| 11 | After being charged , McIntyre had denied being a member of any party . |
| 12 | The cavemen story was finished and ready in script form by the time Verity Lambert arrived at the BBC , the only change from the format she had read being the shift of Susan into the role of granddaughter to the Doctor . |
| 13 | Thérèse refused to stop being a Christian . |