Example sentences of "[verb] being [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Painting and decorating apprentice Jason Hutchinson , 19 , has being judged apprentice of the year with Stockton Borough Council . |
| 2 | ‘ Nor do I like being called Jam , or Jelly , or even Peanut Butter . ’ |
| 3 | Goldie — I do n't like being called Xanthe . |
| 4 | I do n't like being called sir , and the way he said it made my flesh grue . |
| 5 | Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others must be protected against their own actions as well as against external injury . |
| 6 | Ian knew perfectly well that his father loathed being called prof , disliked intensely the way the boy went between the bathroom and his room with his towel flung over his shoulder so that he could flaunt his nakedness . |
| 7 | So I know you wo n't mind being made use of . |
| 8 | In the quiet of his own skull he called it manly , but he would never have used such a word to her , not only because she was privately decorous but also because the way she talked about her children made him sense that she dreaded being thought lesbian . |
| 9 | ( She knows I hate being called Mammy . ) |
| 10 | My eleven year old pony hates being groomed winter and summer . |
| 11 | But she liked being taken care of , without being smothered . |
| 12 | For some of the n115 members of the squadron , the closeure means being made redundandt — others will move to airforce jobs eslewhere in Britain of America . |
| 13 | Years later he said being called Boy was a disaster because as an old man of fifty it made him feel a fool . |
| 14 | ‘ I loathe being called Mademoiselle . ’ |
| 15 | Those few that escape being eaten form pairs and go off together to find a nest site in a crevice in the ground or a crack in a tree . |