Example sentences of "to being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd hardly got used to being without Theresa in the house , ’ Carrie told Julia . |
| 2 | She was n't used to being without a pillow . |
| 3 | League champions Derry are resigned to being without Bank of Ireland All Star defender Tony Scullion , until the championship at the earliest . |
| 4 | Malone are already resigned to being without Stuart Duncan and regular number eight Scott Kirkpatrick until next season . |
| 5 | The Ibrox side are resigned to being without the Englishman for the European Cup showdown with Marseille on 7 April because of the automatic one-match ban which he must serve after his sending off against Brugge on Wednesday night . |
| 6 | You now have to get , in er er , because there was a sort of erm gradation from being off ill , which was n't familiar , to being off long term sick which you ca n't have any experience of to erm early retirement on health grounds and you just ca n't have any experience of that either erm to being retired and it 's , i i it 's , it 's quite interesting |
| 7 | It has been held that the term relates to being under the influence of intoxicating liquor , and the offence is not capable of commission where the intoxication is induced by a substance other than alcohol , such as a solvent . |
| 8 | It is found that its direction of polarisation has been changed on traversing the crystal from being along x to being along y . |
| 9 | Each transmitted photon has had its polarisation state changed instantaneously from being along X " to being along y . |
| 10 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 11 | He also felt that Alison had , somehow , understood him , as he had , in some way , He had , as he returned to looking forward to being with Irina and Marcus , an obscure sense of his life being ‘ in order ’ , as if deep sources were working benignly on his side . |
| 12 | He 's not used to being with women who have pre-menstrual tension or post-natal depression . |
| 13 | Kerrie , your mum looks after Chloe when you are at work so you must look forward to being with her at night . |
| 14 | It is great to be here , but I miss you all and look forward to being with you again soon . |
| 15 | The shooting and fishing I enjoyed , but I soon looked forward even more to being with my uncle . |
| 16 | And their conclusion is , he could n't stand up to , to Lloyd George in and the reason was these were strong , erm , male leaders , and Wilson , when it came to being with men , er , was weak , and the question asked is , why was he weak in dealing with men ? |
| 17 | Right , he 's an outdoor sales manager , he 's been with T N T eleven years , erm , previous to being with T N T he was on , two sales for seven years , and previous to that he sold diaries , business cards , business gifts . |
| 18 | she 's been you know , used to being with her mum , I suppose she felt even closer than any normal you know , relationship . |
| 19 | If the British authorities allowed him to fly across the Atlantic , Mr Ashe said he was ‘ looking forward to being at Wimbledon this year ’ . |
| 20 | Even if you admit to being at fault , you may wish management to take fuller account of mitigating factors or to impose a lesser punishment . |
| 21 | The passengers were looking forward to being at home for Christmas and the atmosphere on board was cheerful . |
| 22 | He even played in the club second fifteen as a prop in preference to being at lock for the first although , when the senior side was in relegation danger , he acceded to the club selectors ' request to revert to lock to help them to safety . |
| 23 | There 's not a great deal of difference to being at a Carter gig in America and a Carter gig in Britain . |
| 24 | I must also admit to being at something of a loss to explain why Darren Bicknell continues to flit between millionaires ' row and Cannery Row . |
| 25 | And she put my head on my hands on the desk in front of me and believe me , I went to sleep , it was must have been very , very new , compared to being at home and perhaps being laid there . |
| 26 | ‘ Terry 's all right , ’ Anne told Sarah , ‘ but I think our Joe feels being away more because he 'd just got used to being at home . |
| 27 | The language of the novel makes use of this cliché to demonstrate first that there is a profound ambiguity in the social construction of femininity according to which women are passive but at the same time subversive of the binary distinction which so construes them , and second that all people , male and female , are condemned to being at least partially the product of the language of others . |
| 28 | They can have up to 35 children with one teacher , training the children to adapt to being at ‘ big ’ school : working quietly , learning letters and numbers participating in larger groups for assembly or playtime . |
| 29 | They , too referred to the future , to being at last together , and to happiness . |
| 30 | On the one hand there was nothing she wanted to do more , but on the other , well , she objected strongly to being at his beck and call . |