Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right in the heart of a city that has become accustomed to being regarded as an eyesore . |
| 2 | He began to feel uncomfortable with being someone else 's total reason for getting out of bed in the morning . |
| 3 | Mitch asked , venturing a question , having become tired of being treated as if he were invisible . |
| 4 | The Loughborough research shows that librarians do n't have to feel apologetic about being on the margins of school action . |
| 5 | For Nicola Field : ‘ As you go on working you learn and you gain more experience and you start to get frustrated with being a side-kick and having your ideas continually being taken up and used by someone else . ’ |
| 6 | But I mean I do get used to being on my own and then like I mean I say he 's there like the , the other morni he went down his mother 's and he did n't come back till three o'clock so he 's not there constantly all the time . |
| 7 | Erm you may have heard that we 've grown big by being recommended . |
| 8 | Cos that 's the usual line you see that , that er that I get , you may have heard the phrase that we 've grown big by being recommended . |
| 9 | She had felt fortunate in being able to please herself where she lived . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've got used to being rich and now we are n't , ’ she went on . |
| 11 | He had got used to being in this room , shut in by the four scrawled walls , the sloping ceiling and the unrelenting noise . |
| 12 | I thought I had become used to being alone , and to the idea that I would always be alone , but I was wrong . |
| 13 | From her reclining position , Mrs Keith still took a controlling interest in the household , but with only Jim in the house and two farmhands in the hut , Tina had become used to being in charge . |
| 14 | True , he had become used to being interrupted — there were , in the category of interrupters , young feckless poets who thought nothing of calling and expecting to be subsidised without there being any thought of reimbursement . |
| 15 | We work in the Harry Ransom Humanities Center , where the facilities for study are magnificent and the people very helpful — though we had to get used to being greeted each morning with loud cries of ‘ Hi , you guys ! ’ from the librarian . |
| 16 | ‘ I got read tired of being indulgent , ’ says Mark , so he sought ‘ a sweet voice to sing the hard songs , and vice-versa to mess it up a bit . |
| 17 | Grace never failed to send a letter on the first of every month , and somehow managed to sound cheerful despite being surrounded by death . |
| 18 | In the past couple of years the opposition parties have become skilled at being anti-Thatcherite , consuming rich pickings from the slow collapse of Thatcherism . |
| 19 | The two tests were explained in that case by the Lord Chancellor … who commented that not the law but our mode of life has changed over the years ; that what has changed is " the degree in which certain things have seemed susceptible of being put up as mere ornaments whereas at our earlier period the mere construction rendered it impossible sometimes to sever the thing which was put up from the realty . " |
| 20 | TWO men have walked free after being formally cleared of the manslaughter of teenage twin girls who died in a barn blaze . |
| 21 | ‘ You have to remember , ’ Ellen liked to lecture Thessy and me , ‘ just how absurdly wealthy they all are , and how desperately the wealthy want to be liked because they ca n't help feeling guilty about being so rich , so we only have to be obsequious , give them loads of booze , and pretend to be impressed by their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions , after which they 'll reward us with an outrageously large tip — which is , after all , the sole reason for being nice to the ghastly creatures in the first place . ’ |