Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dennis hated being kept waiting for his drink . |
| 2 | Marks and Spencer started being nice to its employees , customers , suppliers and neighbours decades before it was fashionable to do so . |
| 3 | Mr Palmer told the court that Mr Browning admitted being in his car at the time of the killing . |
| 4 | Edwina faced being moved out because she could n't get on with Eddie , the tawny owl at The Grange veterinary surgery , Darlington . |
| 5 | It later emerged that Wells escaped being recaptured . |
| 6 | Jezrael hated being the only one there who wore a bodysuit but she would have hated more the embarrassment of displaying herself with all her imperfections to the crude and lumpen miners . |
| 7 | SPAIN 's Seve Ballesteros admitted being confused by his form after trailing in 14 shots behind American winner Brian Watts in the Hong Kong Open yesterday . |
| 8 | When it became obvious that the UTP had failed , Baragumu stopped being political . |
| 9 | The sad truth was , Matthew enjoyed being cruel . |
| 10 | Under hypnosis Sylvia remembered being adamant in her refusal to join in a game of hide and seek , which would have involved her in hiding in isolated , cramped and possibly dark surroundings so that she would not be found . |
| 11 | Lily remembered being cold , being hungry ; how before she went to bed her mother had scorched the skirting board with the flame of a kerosene lamp to make the bugs jump out of the walls . |
| 12 | Malcolm McLaren enjoyed being an art student . |
| 13 | Jessamy hated being this close to him , hated the iron-hard grip of his hands around her wrists . |
| 14 | Joseph enjoyed being able to scold his wicked employer , with warnings from the Bible , and I could not leave Miss Catherine . |
| 15 | Jack avoided being a witness to these scenes much of the time by residing in college . |
| 16 | So we ended up staying the night at a hotel , The Majestic , the big one right on the sea front As usual Malcolm feigned being borassic so she ended up shelling out for two rooms . |
| 17 | ‘ We shall be another two or three minutes , ’ Kragan added nervously ; he knew Frick hated being kept waiting . |
| 18 | Frick hated being contradicted and often flew into a rage when put in such a position . |
| 19 | Jaq feared being marked as a heretic ; but that was not the reason why he was being specially scrutinized . |
| 20 | Understandably , in the light of its heroic effort in 1940 and its enormous contribution to the subsequent defeat of the fascist enemy , Britain mistook being on the winning side for having won the war . |
| 21 | But US reporters at the military hospitals in Texas to which the US casualties are being flown said at midday yesterday they had counted 190 US wounded being flown in , with more planes on the way . |
| 22 | UGLY Kid Joe singer Whitfield Crane faked being a student to get money from his mum . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Blake found being a passenger in the mechanical ‘ land-rovers ’ , with their noise and billowing fumes , frightening . |
| 25 | Rollo loved being taken to the gilt and plush ambience of Rules in Covent Garden , to which his riposte was Lock-Obers in Boston , which he protested was not so good . |
| 26 | She was learning something new every day , and David was enjoying being the teacher just as much as Jenny loved being the pupil . |
| 27 | Lisa Burgess pictured being led into Mold Crown Court yesterday |
| 28 | Lisa Burgess pictured being led into Mold Crown Court yesterday |
| 29 | Longthorne denied being involved in the disturbance in which bottles and glasses were smashed . |
| 30 | Moscow resented being excluded from the post-war occupation of Japan for example , whilst Washington was disturbed at the Communist victory in China in 1949 , and in June 1950 the invasion of pro-Western South Korea by the Communist North dramatically demonstrated that Cold War tensions outside Europe could have a major impact within Europe . |