Example sentences of "he [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have liked him for being into free speech and free love , and for what he has to say about convergences of the two , and about the curbs which revolution and its regimes has placed on them . |
| 2 | Denis Healey , nevertheless , had to contend with a wide range of critics , from socialists such as Benn who claimed that his successes resulted from such right-wing nostrums as a wage freeze and cutting public spending , to the monetarists of the Policy Studies Committee who attacked him for being far too dirigiste . |
| 3 | She had hit him and fed him , shouted at him for being idle and comforted him when he woke in the night and was afraid . |
| 4 | But if Bobby wanted to get in on it now , he 'd have been turned away at the door : the elitists would have laughed at him for being in an indie band and ‘ Loaded ’ might never have been produced . |
| 5 | Maggie could have slapped him for being so cruel . |
| 6 | The important thing in this case was to reward him for being good rather than punish him for being naughty — if you scold or hit a young horse for not standing still you will only make matters worse . |
| 7 | The important thing in this case was to reward him for being good rather than punish him for being naughty — if you scold or hit a young horse for not standing still you will only make matters worse . |
| 8 | ‘ Reward a young horse for being good rather than punish him for being naughty ’ |
| 9 | I applaud him for being able to marry self-interest with the needs of others . |
| 10 | Kabir came to the market to sell from his loom when the woman grasped his hand , blaming him for being faithless , and followed him to his house , saying she would not be forsaken . |
| 11 | I took him round to Cheapside and booked him for being drunk and disorderly . |
| 12 | Remember a couple of weeks ago when you were taking the piss out of him for being scruffy , you told him not to come in again unless he was wearing a tie . |
| 13 | Whilst at the track the police arrived and arrested him for being in possession of a stolen car . |
| 14 | Should I rave on at him for being a litter lout ? |
| 15 | Instead of asking Robert to spend more time with her at the weekends , she blamed him for being absent when something quite minor happened to one of the children . |
| 16 | I did n't know him very well and I despised him for being well behaved and creeping around telling stories about me . |
| 17 | Mr Wilson complained to an industrial tribunal that the company had taken action , short of dismissal , against him for the purpose of deterring him from being or penalising him for being a member of the NUJ , contrary to s 23 of the EP(C)A . |
| 18 | He swooped on Preminger who rebuked him for being drunk , raging , ‘ You ver drunk last night and you are drunk now . ’ |
| 19 | She rebuked him for being so long . |
| 20 | My anxiety had returned , and I hated him for being so happy . |
| 21 | The men who overthrew James II denounced him for being an enemy of the type of established property that depended on charters like those of the City of London or the colony of Massachusetts . |
| 22 | Other analysts criticized him for being both too political and unscientific — science being assumed to be apolitical in principle . |
| 23 | ‘ He 'll stop people from picking on him for being different . ’ |
| 24 | Once when a policeman announced he was going to arrest him for being drunk and disorderly , Minton pointed to his helmet and expostulated , ‘ What ! |
| 25 | I like him for being a rebel , and we agree on several issues , although I am not sure I would go along with some of his proposals to abolish the monarchy and the House of Lords . |
| 26 | And you ca n't blame him for being frightened . |
| 27 | Paradise Lost is taken by most at the level of the author 's presentation and unless one looks very deeply and sceptically at Satan or one is a Christian like Lewis or a Puritan like Milton one can not laugh at him for being a fool . |
| 28 | He hates him for being the initial cause of his mother 's addiction and also the receiver of most of her attention . |
| 29 | He receives his 1687.50 in margin plus an invoice ( or settlement ) amount to compensate him for being allocated a time deposit yielding less than the settlement interest rate . |
| 30 | When the real Travers returns his wife chides him for being so forgetful , from which Travers deduces what has happened . |