Example sentences of "[vb past] being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I remembered being in the weight-training room with two club-mates , Trevor Wade and Clifford Mamba , a few weeks earlier and we had been discussing sprinting . |
| 32 | Robyn remembered being by the fountain , all those weeks ago ; he had used the very same expression then . |
| 33 | She liked being on the go . |
| 34 | I quite liked being on my own , most of the time . ’ |
| 35 | He liked being with Steve and Paul because they were like his bit of rough . |
| 36 | She liked being with women she was fond of . |
| 37 | But she claimed she liked being with him , she liked making him happy , and she liked doing what he did . |
| 38 | ‘ That she liked being in the wood . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ It was she who liked being in France . |
| 40 | Over the months Jay found she liked being around Lucy , enjoyed desiring her and doing nothing about it . |
| 41 | In the event of the name of a member nominated being on the official panel of available parliamentary candidates of an affiliated organisation the consent in writing of the Executive Committee thereof must also be obtained and sent in with the form of nomination . |
| 42 | I was roasting , ’ said the youngster , who preferred being on the other side of the camera . |
| 43 | After his liaison ended and he was alone again , he wrote simply and forlornly , ‘ I hated being alone so much that I preferred being with a bad whore to being alone . ’ |
| 44 | The Mites over school age resented being with kids all the time and tried to assert their freedom . |
| 45 | Mr. Bell denied being drunk and disorderly and denied being in breach of the bail condition . |
| 46 | My job entailed being on call for shipping in the harbour and for this reason I was loath to live outside Stornoway . |