Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxim felt a moment of total disorientation before he realised that something must have gone badly wrong , that because she had not greeted him he must stay being Winterbotham , that because they were strangers he must make the first move . |
| 2 | No matter he might stop being a soldier if something changes in that family to bring him back ( though I ca n't see that happening , the Talvi are the kind who never have a change of heart ) . |
| 3 | At his trial he would protest that , although he could remember being told not to hold or defend the Copernican system , he had no recollection of an injunction against teaching it . |
| 4 | He says he 'd consider being a care worker , but his experience in the army was many years ago , so he may not qualify any more . |
| 5 | She wished there were the faintest chance that he would drop being breezy . |
| 6 | Lord Salisbury did offer the Rolls to Clarke , who declined it on the ground that it would put an end to his political career , though he added that he would accept being made a Law Lord . |
| 7 | He would enjoy being comfortably housed , having a music room with a Steinway grand , and an orchestra , however inexperienced , on tap to play his compositions , the largest part of which he had never heard . |
| 8 | I sometimes thought that he would enjoy being mistaken for the one rather than the other , because he disliked the idea of poetry as a ‘ profession ’ : an attitude which some lesser figures found puzzling . |
| 9 | Hari felt the impulse to ruffle William 's hair but she knew he would resent being treated like the child he was , boys grew up quickly in the harsh realities of World 's End . |
| 10 | If , however , he does so without offering to transfer the employee to a place where work is available , he will risk being liable to pay compensation for unfair dismissal . |
| 11 | God can no more stop loving you than he can stop being ! |
| 12 | It was Dr Who that provided the young Loveday with his earliest musical revelations , as he can remember being transfixed by the time travelling adventures and the theme music ( an early outing into electronic music composed by the legendary Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop ) . |