Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] being " in BNC.
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1 | Dot tried not to mind being left on her own in the basement . |
2 | A few things nettled her : she did not relish being a clearing house for family complaints , for instance , and was carefully reticent on such occasions . |
3 | Mrs Thatcher , in effect , did not anticipate being linked to the monetary system of an increasingly interventionist Europe in her political lifetime . |
4 | The West Midlands Area Tories , to which organisation Arden belonged , were holding a dance to the music of the Majorettes , but David did not fancy being enveloped in clouds of blue tulle . |
5 | With my wife 's reluctant agreement ( she did not fancy being left on her own with our two year old son for over a week ) , we started to plan our journey . |
6 | She did not deserve being pilloried like that at all . |
7 | I learned quickly that she did not like being ‘ told ’ . |
8 | She did not like being a victim . |
9 | Maisie , like Henry , did not like being lifted . |
10 | He had very few spare clothes and did not like being found out . |
11 | Whether it was because she knew she was my baby and did not like being with ward Sister , I shall not know , but she only gained two ounces the first week . |
12 | Lewis did not like being corrected but he had to take it , and with a smile . |
13 | Congressmen and senators did not like being bombarded with an estimated eighty legislative proposals in Carter 's first year and were unim-pressed by his resistance to compromise , his aversion to bargaining and his threats to go over their heads directly to the people . |
14 | In the end she decided that she did not like being a sightseer : the role filled her with an obscure rage . |
15 | She did not like being touched , not ever ! |
16 | ‘ She was very proud of her success , not guilty , and did not like being made to feel so , ’ one friend explained . |
17 | His face showed he had fought against passion and won , but did not like being the winner . |
18 | Owen did not like being reminded that he was , so far as police work was concerned , an amateur . |
19 | George did not like being firm with Lennie but he knew that he had to be cruel to be kind . |
20 | She said it was fine , providing he did not mind being one of a crowd . |
21 | This last statement should be noticed — he disliked assemblies and places where speeches were made at length and he did not enjoy being a chairman — but he made this single exception , the Convocation of York ; he always gave a presidential address , about which he took much trouble . |
22 | The original plan was that Anita would do the cooking and her husband would serve the customers , but she did not enjoy being behind the scenes and eventually taught Gordon to be a fine cook while she spent her time out front chatting up the customers . |
23 | And unfortunately , I told him in graphic detail , and thereby of course , lost a contract , because he turned out to be the most senior person in the room , and he did not enjoy being humiliated in that way . |
24 | The economy did not appreciate being forced up-market ; it went into a brief recession . |
25 | Universities forced to reduce staff numbers by half after the science council concluded that they were grossly oversubscribed did not appreciate being asked to take in outsiders at a further cost to their own numbers . |
26 | She did not appreciate being manhandled . |
27 | She did not remember being formally instructed by anyone , not even the older girls , though in some houses , men were evidently called in to show girls how to handset . |
28 | She had not mentioned being married to him , so he did n't mention it either . |