Example sentences of "being [adj] with [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My suggestion is that the eight working-class women who say they ‘ like ’ or ‘ do n't mind ’ housework but show evidence of being dissatisfied with it , are in fact committing this contradiction because the speech mode they are used to makes the presentation of individual feelings difficult . |
| 2 | No doubt he had said she was beautiful to coax Ana into being friendly with her . |
| 3 | We got along well , + she had very few friends also , probably as a result of being friendly with me . |
| 4 | No , do n't try being evasive with me the way you were with the police , because it wo n't wash . |
| 5 | You 're just being pissy with me . |
| 6 | Is he still being funny with you though ? |
| 7 | So we 're not being patronising with it . |
| 8 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 9 | Oh there you 're being serious with me now . |
| 10 | Normal children are usually quite easily satisfied when they know that adults are being honest with them : – |
| 11 | Know what I mean , I 'm just being honest with ye . |
| 12 | Then he began to change his ground , to slip from real remorse into disguised anger , saying that he should never have trapped me into domesticity , meaning , of course , that I should never have trapped him , and , instead of getting angry underneath — as I had earlier when he was being honest with me — I felt an enormous , trembling sympathy with him and begged him to stop : he was n't , after all , responsible for everything . |
| 13 | ‘ Now that you are being honest with me , I think I can help you . ’ |
| 14 | After one such painful confrontation someone wrote , ‘ Thank you for being straight with me — I needed it . ’ |
| 15 | I thought he was being considerate with me , not rushing me . |
| 16 | I 've heard a figure of about five hundred and I just wondered if that rings a bell as being reasonable with you ? |
| 17 | Well you look , oh the other one too , I mean she 's being stupid with her ! |
| 18 | When her father was being stern with her , and she hid her face from the camera in the pillow on the morning before her wedding , he thought of all the arguments that he would have used to persuade her to get up and face the situation . |
| 19 | The question really was , did being alone with me on a boat seem like a good idea or not ? " |
| 20 | But I expect that will suit you , since you seem to be afraid of being alone with me . ’ |
| 21 | Now , however , she had grown tired of Davis , and her excuses to avoid being alone with him became more frequent . |
| 22 | From the outset , Joan Templeman had some difficulty growing accustomed to the fact that living with Richard Branson seldom meant actually being alone with him . |
| 23 | Only that perhaps he had manufactured some reason so that she would be able to overcome her own personal fears of being alone with him ; given her an excuse to accept his invitation to re-enter the apartment where he 'd previously abused her both physically and verbally . |
| 24 | Being alone with him , even on busy city streets , could turn out to be more than she could bear . |
| 25 | She admitted that she had been thrilled at the idea of being alone with him , but all he was going to do was be stiffly silent . |
| 26 | There were men and women there who looked narrowly at Adam when they clapped eyes on him , and being alone with him in quiet places called him tentatively by name . |
| 27 | Constance was appalled at the thought of being alone with her but rose helplessly as Gioella stretched out her hand . |
| 28 | She wanted to ask him if he liked being alone with her , as he was now , on the quiet seashore on a nice day , but naturally she did not . |
| 29 | ‘ Please stop being angry with me , ’ Doreen pleaded in a wheedling tone , rubbing her hand along his arm . |
| 30 | You stopped being angry with them and held back your furious rage . |