Example sentences of "[pron] being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reply involved my being of British descent , five generations back ; our country 's closer historical ties with Britain ; and , er , frankly , sir , a question of sport . |
| 2 | It took me quite a while to convince him that my being with you was because I was trying to persuade you to — ’ |
| 3 | Something dreadful that warrants my being at his side ? |
| 4 | ‘ You spoke of my being in danger — what has all this to do with me ? ’ |
| 5 | Without my being in any position to know their movements , they stop off for lunch half-way through their trip . |
| 6 | At this point I saw for the first time , a really good reason for my being in Thailand as PCV . |
| 7 | I did n't like to recall that squalid gavotte of erotic incomprehension I had once danced , did n't like to compare — to imagine Gill comparing — my being in a room with her here and my being in a room with another there . |
| 8 | I did n't like to recall that squalid gavotte of erotic incomprehension I had once danced , did n't like to compare — to imagine Gill comparing — my being in a room with her here and my being in a room with another there . |
| 9 | One such conception is behaviourism , which provides a conceptual link between behaviour and mental states by saying that the mental state of my being in pain in my knee just is the behavioural state of my wincing and holding my knee , taking greater care of it and so on . |
| 10 | Or there are weaker forms of behaviourism which attempt to make allowances for concealed mental states ; for instance , one might hold that my being in pain in my knee is for me to be disposed to behave in a certain way , whether I actually do so or not . |
| 11 | Imagine my being in a position to tell Michel something that he ought to know — that may be vital for him to know . ’ |
| 12 | It was against my will but I felt there was no use fighting it , because the social worker had many things against me , like my not going to see the baby , and my being in prison — there were many things against me . |
| 13 | ‘ Otherwise there 's no point in my being in Berlin at all . ’ |
| 14 | That was the whole object of my being in this place . |
| 15 | ‘ I could n't quite understand how you leapt from my knowing your parents to my being in cahoots with Ryan . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , if you harbour such great objections to my being in your office , why on earth should you take the slightest interest in my problems ? |
| 17 | If , as Parsons puts it , there can never be an id-impulse as such for the individual , since it must always be seen as part of the expressive symbolism of a common culture , then it is not possible to envisage the possibility of someone being in conflict with their society 's common culture . |
| 18 | Or , indeed , any trace of someone being near the bell ? |
| 19 | The experience of being molested once as a child and then a man jumping in her car at 21 yrs and her running away remained with her so that she has persistent fear of being attacked and the sense of someone being behind her . |
| 20 | The wonderful world of show is where he basically sees himself being at … |
| 21 | It 's a word that has an easy place in Justin 's conversation , and it 's pretty clear that , unlike most others in his profession , the wonderful world of show is where he basically sees himself being at . |
| 22 | The dismissal of Panizo was thought to be linked to expressions of anti-Japanese racism ( Fujimori himself being of Japanese descent ) and to rumours of a coup plot within the Navy . |
| 23 | From this , we will not be excluded , but will in turn exclude them , including some of those who might find themselves in the terrain of our state because their being on our state threatens the unity of our state , just as they perceive us to be a threat to their unity , and so on and so on . |
| 24 | But this crucially involves their being past the Gricean hump . |
| 25 | The concentrations are very variable , but though there is evidence of their being at higher levels near cities and urban areas , there is no necessary connection with waste-disposal sites . |
| 26 | It then compares the costs incurred for control samples with those of action sample clients , and finally examines the most important question as far as this project is concerned : whether those who were sustained at home with project support for six or l2 months after their referral to the psychogeriatrician cost more , less , or about the same to keep at home compared with the cost of institutional care ( taking into account the probability of their being in an institution were it not for the project support ) . |
| 27 | All too frequently choirs and musicians , as well as servers , are taken for granted because of their being in church Sunday by Sunday . |
| 28 | They are probably relics from the Tertiary and there are no known examples of their being in the process of formation today . |
| 29 | Throughout the period of their being in care there have been regular appeals to the sheriff court . |
| 30 | still keeps the wage-labour relationship and the work-role as determinative of social existence , even if this is at second hand ( and its being at second hand is very important in relation to issues of patriarchy ) . |