Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] be [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as I write , my heart is being ‘ roasted ’ because of the pounding music beat coming down from the flat above me . |
| 2 | By now my chest was being X-rayed in tiny vertical slices . |
| 3 | She is said to have confronted the Queen 's private secretary Sir Robert Fellowes to tell him : ‘ If I discover my calls are being bugged , I 'm off . ’ |
| 4 | I did not hear any calls warning of the presence of the 109s , and very soon after first sighting the Ju88s I became aware that my aircraft was being hit . |
| 5 | But while my mind was being 16 , my body did n't feel that way at all . |
| 6 | This has been recognised , and my practice is being amended in order to facilitate this . |
| 7 | But at the same time as my accusation was being assessed by a prestigious board of Edinburgh academics , just a departmental door away a female student and her male lecturer were engaging in clandestine consensual sex . |
| 8 | My parents are being a bit stuffy about me living in London on my own , actually , ’ Rosemary confessed . |
| 9 | As I got to the end of the row it seemed that a hundred hands had grabbed me … my body was being assailed with blows from so many directions , whether from kicks or punches I do not know , and with stars in front of my eyes and bells ringing in my ears , I felt another strange sensation . |
| 10 | There has been a judicial inquiry into what happened , but many of my constituents are being subjected , once again , to serious allegations , although they have been cleared in court . |
| 11 | My Dad ( who smoked ! ) caught us on that occasion and my punishment was being forced to smoke a whole cigarette ( which I did n't want ) in front of my friends who were called into the front room especially to witness the humiliation . |
| 12 | Later I found out that my husband was being unfaithful to me . |
| 13 | my Martin 's being horrible |
| 14 | Then I saw that the hills were my legs , and that my head was being pushed between them . |
| 15 | ‘ My whinge is being charged 10 for being overdrawn with National Giro for the first time ever and by only 3.11 — and even though they were in possession of cheques for 36.53 which they knew would be honoured . ’ |
| 16 | Will the right hon. Gentleman arrange for the Secretary of State for Defence to make a statement about the way in which contractors are paid £10 an hour for security guards at some of our vital establishments when security guards in my constituency are being paid £1.80 an hour ? |
| 17 | But as I walked across the jarred and cratered road and sensed the usual quickenings of irony and aggression I also sensed something further — I sensed that my weight , my mass , my meat was being appraised , registered , scaled , not with lust , no , but with a carnal speculation I had never felt before . |
| 18 | Strachan said : ‘ It came as a big surprise when I was told six weeks ago my name was being put forward . |
| 19 | The Kodak laboratories of my eidesis were being dismantled ; soon all that would be left was an out-of-order passport-photo-booth , mouldering on an empty station platform . |
| 20 | ‘ My father 's being released and I 'm the last to know ! |
| 21 | One very urgent and necessary reason for our absence is that next Friday my opera is being performed again and it is most essential that I should be present . |
| 22 | So it is that my magazine is being put into a state of hibernation . |
| 23 | Anyway , with Selina here , my life is being lived in white underpants . |
| 24 | One of the most beautiful experiences of my life was being able to play the Tenth Symphony for Shostakovich when we last visited Moscow . |
| 25 | My life was being timed but I was not contributing . |
| 26 | But there 's still this stigma because we 're not married and I do n't wha , I do n't really know how to explain it but I feel that at times my daughter is being victimized to a certain degree because we 're not married . |
| 27 | He knows that part of my beauty is being alive , but it 's the dead me he wants . |
| 28 | I had to take prep , yeah , and my middles were being really really disgusting . |
| 29 | On the positive side , I feel fine physically and my spirits are being lifted immeasurably by the mail that 's beginning to pour in . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course my son is being called , ’ he murmured . |