Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military . |
| 2 | She had stopped being so afraid once she had heard him talking to her mother . |
| 3 | There was so much enraged violence in the action that Isabel knew she had missed being hurled across the church by that powerful arm only because of fitzAlan 's self-control . |
| 4 | The cavemen story was finished and ready in script form by the time Verity Lambert arrived at the BBC , the only change from the format she had read being the shift of Susan into the role of granddaughter to the Doctor . |
| 5 | Despite his anger , she had enjoyed being carried by him — rather too much . |
| 6 | SHE had tried being in the Navy , being a secretary , being a casino croupier . |