Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ These men are torn between yearning to be close to a woman and having a deep fear of hostility towards them , ’ says psychologist Dr Susan Forward . |
| 2 | ‘ Not really , but on lovely days you 're suddenly overwhelmed with longing to be in love again . ’ |
| 3 | Staying on the edge of being a good photographer you felt committed to trying to be there . |
| 4 | We 've got a very good set up erm my mechanic Mick Day is coming back again tomorrow ; I 'm picking him up from the airport , so that 'll be three years with him and erm I can rely on him to sort of get things ready and erm you know , we 've got a great set up and really I can just concentrate on trying to be erm world speedway champion this year . |
| 5 | The makings of a quite substantial tomato salad mystique are scattered around waiting to be gathered up by some enterprising buyer who will get the produce flown in from Barcelona or Marseilles , Naples , Valencia or even possibly from Portugal , where the tomatoes are as good and plentiful as anywhere in Mediterranean lands . |
| 6 | They will have to choose between pretending to be friends of the farmer and lackeys of the environmentalist . |
| 7 | They speak of longing to be beautiful or of restrictions on what they can wear or how they can look , and of media images of young women and how this affects them . |
| 8 | ‘ And do you plan on continuing to be my adoring little slave girl ? ’ |
| 9 | This " " fabliaus " " ends by claiming to be an example of the innate deceptiveness of woman : ( Woman is made to deceive : lying she turns into truth and truth she turns into lying . ) |
| 10 | Parish councillors at Robin Hood 's Bay are calling for policing to be stepped up . |
| 11 | Its power had nothing to do with sexual attraction , and a great deal to do with wanting to be liked . |
| 12 | The decision in 1925 to rejoin the Gold Standard had as much to do with wishing to be ‘ tied up ’ to the United States of America as was the decision to enter the ERM to do with wishing increasingly to be linked with a centrally governed Europe . |
| 13 | Fortunately , many types of pump can be restarted without having to be disconnected and dismantled . |
| 14 | He was known for wanting to be photographed from every conceivable angle and vigorously applauded when making his inflammatory speeches , and I was looking forward to seeing in the flesh this extraordinary man of whom my parents had brought me up to disapprove . |
| 15 | I tried to explore the problems Mrs Singh would have in attempting to be a fully participating parent but the educational psychologist seemed to feel that this was a problem common to many Cedars parents . |
| 16 | Intuitively she felt the depths of the anguish he 'd suffered , knew without having to be told how hard he had struggled to help his sister , understood how devastating it must have been for him to realise she 'd gone beyond his help . |
| 17 | Then the suffocating cloud , the heat would move in , weighing down the air and we would go outside hoping to be able to breathe more easily . |
| 18 | To what extent was your decision influenced by wanting to be that somebody , to make your mark in a field others had ignored ? |
| 19 | I agree with eating disorder 's therapist Marilyn Lawrence that ‘ when compulsive exercisers talk about how good their regime makes them feel , they are actually talking about wanting to be a good person . |
| 20 | Morrissey ought to get himself a string section and stop swanning about pretending to be Melvyn Bragg . ’ |
| 21 | Stanley can see through Blanche 's lies and deception but what annoys him is the pretence that Blanche puts on pretending to be better than him and taunting him by calling him a ‘ Polak ’ . |
| 22 | When talking with children , it is very important not to convey by trying to be gentle , that the person who has died had in any sense a choice in the matter . |
| 23 | I think she is a little irritated at needing to be worried . |
| 24 | He admits to wanting to be a showman , you know ? |
| 25 | As I have already made clear before , every such particular has certain " essential " properties which it can not shed without ceasing to be what it is ; but although its having such properties is necessary to its identity , it is not quite sufficient to explain its existential uniqueness . |
| 26 | Shortly afterwards we returned to English prep schools , where I quickly had my French beaten out of me in French grammar classes , and where Lorne responded by continuing to be unable to talk or , rather , to speak in any known language , for he would hold forth volubly in a tongue uniquely his own . |
| 27 | First and second encounters can be managed by conventional openness — a third meeting may necessitate a humorously resigned grin — a fourth can be handled by pretending to be wrapped in thought — a fifth may require some dramatised horseplay such as play-acting a Western duel . |
| 28 | They took turns at leading , each of them having begun by trying to be the man . |
| 29 | InfoWorld 's ubiquitous gossip columnist Robert X Cringely took his shot at NT this week : ‘ Windows NT , ’ he writes , ‘ is compromised by trying to be both a client and a server operating system . |