Example sentences of "and [vb past] being [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 2 | The corporal lay that afternoon among hot stones on an exposed and open slope , his skin scorched by the stones ; nevertheless , he stayed flat to the ground and escaped being captured or shot . |
| 3 | ‘ When sound came in , in 1928 , Keaton had signed to MGM and began being used as a vehicle for really average production-line gags . |
| 4 | So I pushed suspicion away and enjoyed being fussed over . |
| 5 | PC World chairman Jan Murray reckons it was only a matter of time before PCs lost their premium product status and started being treated like any other commodity item . |
| 6 | That was true , Erika admitted : the July Plot in 1944 when a group of officers , aristocrats to a man , had tried to assassinate Hitler and been caught and hanged with piano wire — and filmed being hanged — and the film shown at Hitler 's headquarters as after dinner entertainment … . |
| 7 | I think we were both put out , for Dana , though certainly James Dean material , hated to be valued for his looks alone , while I resented the ease with which he attracted praise and disliked being thought of as an intellectual with nothing else to recommend me . |
| 8 | He took British citizenship , travelled for the rest of his life on a British passport , and disliked being described as a ‘ South African choreographer ’ . |