Example sentences of "and [being] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed that a hospital was very much like a ship , and being under fire had made her like a man of war . |
| 2 | He had never found it easy to get up in the morning , and being under sentence of death did not make the prospect of a new day any more enticing . |
| 3 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 4 | For others it is sufficient to look or act like a gouger by being rough-looking and dirty or disrespectful to and disliking the police , ‘ giving lip ’ and swearing , coming from ‘ a problem family ’ and being of low intelligence ( ‘ not all there ’ , ‘ air getting in ’ , ‘ not right ’ , ‘ a few bricks short of a full load ’ ) . |
| 5 | But the nature and being of Christ are not made obvious and clear-cut even in the pages of the New Testament . |
| 6 | And we may well agree that there is little else that one can imagine existing alone and being of any great value . |
| 7 | Three factors dominate the leading of a perceived healthy life : taking exercise , having a good diet and being of moderate habits ( Table 6.5 ) . |
| 8 | It is a work of deep inwardness , where the presence of God in all creatures makes external worship and scriptural authority superfluous : ‘ God is in all Creatures , Man and Beast , Fish and Fowle , and every green thing , from the highest Cedar to the Ivey on the wall ; and that God is the life and being of them all . ’ |
| 9 | Ironically those same purposes include , as we have seen , the recreation of a world where such exclusion is not to be found , but instead there is harmony , joy , and a universal sense of belonging and being at home . |
| 10 | I was really enjoying my new status as a mother and being at home and caring for Danielle and watching her grow and learn was all I wanted to do for the rest of my life . |
| 11 | There are then contrasts again , and being at home alone becomes more enjoyable . |
| 12 | Getting up and being at the shop on time is the teenager 's own responsibility and part of the cost to be reckoned with . |
| 13 | Several special trains of American frozen meat arrived every week , leaving Southampton at 6 p.m. , arriving at Nine Elms at 10 p.m. , and being at the market by midnight . |
| 14 | One of those in the escape , Barry Morton , 24 , was recaptured in Liverpool on Wednesday and was yesterday remanded for a week by magistrates in Manchester charged with escaping from custody and being at large . |
| 15 | When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does . |
| 16 | And how are you ever going to afford to get us away from dripping cat-piss and being on top of each other ? ’ |
| 17 | She loved singing , and being on stage , but she hated the travelling . |
| 18 | They were mad about boats and being on the water and some of their techniques are still in use today . |
| 19 | The fear of abandonment and being on their own was stronger than the discomfort of the existing situation . |
| 20 | ‘ After all , I am the club 's leading Second Division scorer , despite missing games through injury and being on the bench at times . ’ |
| 21 | Having house full of kids and being on dole . |
| 22 | When she left the Three Degrees in 1987 , Sheila decided to combine singing and showbiz with spending more time at home , cooking , and being with her twin daughters . |
| 23 | But there was the rub , for Ben had , according to many , the most explosive start ever in athletics ' history and being with him at the three-fifths point in the race was , apparently , beyond the powers of the sprinters gathered in the Stadio Olimpico on this hot August day , Lewis included . |
| 24 | ‘ Mother wo n't let us come here alone , and being with you is almost as good as being by ourselves ! ’ |
| 25 | I loved the hard work and being with the ten other actors , in the pub , in the cafe , belonging to the group . |
| 26 | He had played his part , had enjoyed the pomp and the dressing-up , and being with his bride the centre of attention , confident all the while that Fate , his father or the future — the three f's as he called them to himself — would eventually rearrange the matter to everyone 's satisfaction . |
| 27 | He preferred Chelsea and being with his friends . |
| 28 | But how could I explain to a man shaking with fury that it was candy-floss I did n't like , and crowds , and being with him ? |
| 29 | She loved organising things and being with young people , whether it was debating society , Saturday night socials , musical activities , sports , whatever . |
| 30 | And being with Gittel was like — oh , I do n't know the right words-like the first day when the sun turns warm enough to start the ice melting off the eaves . |