Example sentences of "[verb] [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell you the unkindest thing I know about him : he was caught being beastly to a woman at a party for no obvious reason . |
| 2 | The young horse goes through so many learning experiences with us — the discipline of being held still in our arms as a foal , acceptance of being stroked all over and having its legs picked up , learning to lead and to be tied up , and later learning to accept being rugged and lunged . |
| 3 | So assertive is just being clear in what you want being prepared to keep going until you 've got something along those lines rather than letting people dismiss you or make you feel as though they 've dismissed you and your point not being considered i.e. your point not being heard or going away feeling that your point you did n't have a fair crack because you did n't give your point properly . |
| 4 | In 1960 , the Acton Society Trust had reported being unaware of any company which had a programme of preparation for retirement . |
| 5 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 6 | I tried being quiet . ’ |
| 7 | The dwellings are heated by communal gas boilers , the fuel used being heat-metered into each flat — occupants have the option of reducing or suspending the flow of the low-pressure hot water central hearing — while a ‘ landlord 's meter ’ records the amount of heat used in common areas . |
| 8 | If you trust somebody okay you 're quite open to them , they 're quite open to you if you co-operate you 're flexible , you 're being flexible and you like to work together and what happens is is if you 've got low trust and low co-operation with somebody well what you 've got is really everybody both people or everybody involved being defensive constantly being def defensive , if you do n't trust somebody and you know you 're not co-operative you 're constantly looking over your back , what are they doing are they doing that 's gon na mess something up you know what are they trying to do now . |
| 9 | and I ca n't see the two people involved being able to stomach that very easily because questions like why did you not ask for counselling at the time or you were in charge and why did you not ensure he had any adequate |
| 10 | ‘ It sounds as if , in your family , there was a message that being sexy equalled being tarty , and that the consequences of that might be dangerous — even to the point of getting killed , ’ suggested the counsellor . |
| 11 | And what was considered acceptable and what was considered being bloody greedy ! |
| 12 | One of the questions frequently asked by researchers studying errors in the production of words in spontaneous speech is whether there are differences in the error patterns for different clashes of word , the most frequently considered being open and closed classes of vocabulary items . |
| 13 | He would have enjoyed being solicitous after — handing her the Vaseline , witch hazel and bandages with a pious lecture thrown in . |
| 14 | He had enjoyed being able to tell Sunil all about it at lunch , though he had been a little worried by the way Sunil had then gazed at Gooseneck throughout the meal with evident hero-worship . |
| 15 | When it became obvious that the UTP had failed , Baragumu stopped being political . |
| 16 | I stopped being complacent when Rose was delivered into my care . ’ |
| 17 | It is now widely acknowledged ( except by saddoes ) that Dr Who stopped being good after Jon Pertwee in 1974 — but that makes 11 glorious years of top-class , home-spun cheap thrills in out space — a reign untouched by later , more sophist TV sci-fi . |
| 18 | ‘ He stopped being friendly ? ’ |
| 19 | Sir , when did it stopped being compulsory for you to have a tetanus jab ? |
| 20 | You stopped being angry with them and held back your furious rage . |
| 21 | Nails , getting the taste of it , stopped being terrified and began to keep his eyes open long enough to judge the thoroughbred 's stride as he approached a jump and to know when he was going to stand off and when he was going to put a quick one in . |
| 22 | When do you think that that erm stopped being popular ? |
| 23 | Not that they stopped being scared at once , that first , frightened time . |
| 24 | And , like a little child , he stopped being careful and tense for a moment and said what was in his head , quite simply . |
| 25 | I stopped being blind as my feet squelched over marshy ground where common spotted orchids grew to pick my way across medieval ridge-and-furrow pasture . |
| 26 | ‘ He never stopped being funny . |
| 27 | It took him only a few weeks to realise that not all saddles hurt , but he never stopped being difficult in his mouth and was rarely eager to please . |
| 28 | And it 's time you stopped being afraid of life . ’ |
| 29 | I do n't particularly enjoy being famous . |
| 30 | Do you enjoy being stupid , having a laugh , parties , good music ( no Bros fans please ! ) and making new friends ? |