Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 32 | I like them for being different , ’ said Corman . |
| 33 | Instead of blaming them for a small error , I praise them for being 99 percent perfect . |
| 34 | I admire them for being so up front about their religious activity because it puts them right in the front line against anti-Semitism . ’ |
| 35 | The girls exchanged nervous glances , thinking that it must be Miss Hardbroom come to reprimand them for being out of bed . |
| 36 | They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath . |
| 37 | I admire them for being able to sit there in front of everybody and say they actually , what they 've been through because it must have been sheer hell er , trying to come off and withdrawal symptoms , I mean , I do n't know much about it cos I 've never taken well I smoke |
| 38 | If a person has become disabled through no fault of their own and they 're not going to be provided with a benefit which would compensate them for being out of work , they will suffer enormously . ’ |
| 39 | They undoubtedly deserve them for being flexible enough to listen to the people and to bodies like the Royal Fine Arts Commission and for thinking up the innovative scheme itself . |
| 40 | He criticised them for being ‘ too optimistic as to what is and what is not possible to us ’ , and also for under-estimating the enemy 's ability to launch a major offensive . |
| 41 | One of the problems that the college told me about is that school children are leaving school with more computer literacy than the university teachers , so university teachers are having to run hard simply to keep up with the people they are teaching . |
| 42 | The essential driving force is always difficult to define but the one thing that has struck me about is his intolerance of injustice wherever it presents itself . |
| 43 | erm what she were arguing with me about is her age . |
| 44 | And the only thing you have to ask me about is the group pick up , which I have n't mentioned have I . |
| 45 | Irena took an unofficial day off work and we wandered through the damp streets while she told me about being a student at Palacky University in 1968 ( and what happened afterwards : ‘ It is strange how the history books of a country can change , is n't it ? ’ ) . |
| 46 | But other people have voluntarily talked to me about being gay in the context of AIDS . |
| 47 | Tell me about being frightened when you were little , said Mr Rose . |
| 48 | She warned me against noticing only the differences between life in the Indian sub-continent and in England and she warned me about being seduced by the apparent ‘ exoticness ’ of it all . |
| 49 | Yeah but a lo a lot of quotes gon na be made to them after are n't there ? |
| 50 | For two days running , thousands of commuters had to leave trains to walk along the tracks , some of them after being stranded between stations for six hours . |
| 51 | Some of the authors were former activists imprisoned after the Tiananmen Incident who made contacts while in detention and maintained them after being released . |
| 52 | trying to get it together and I would of got it together if I for being nice |
| 53 | And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it . |
| 54 | How long ago was that then , how old would I of been then , when you had all these alterations done ? |
| 55 | Deliver it to your home Well , what I to is the erm , getting involved in . |
| 56 | And I to be a corporal of his field , |
| 57 | So he sent a telegram to his wife saying : ‘ Am in Market Harborough — where ought I to be ? ’ and she , being a practical woman , sent a terse telegram with one word : ‘ Home ’ . |
| 58 | Who was I to be taking on a contender like Thomas Carter , a management consultant and the owner-occupier of a £500,000 property set in the accessible Arcadia of Boars Hill ? |
| 59 | Nevertheless , it clearly would n't do for Karen and I to be seen together immediately afterwards . |
| 60 | Indeed , he even reveals that he has recovered from a bout of depression : ‘ What right have I to be depressed ? |