Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fat lot he even cared about being late for church and she trying to keep up a good style . |
| 2 | To admit to being innocent of guile somehow smacked of being undesirable , immature , but far better that than be thought an actress . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a load of bullshit ! ’ the culprit shouted before being strong-armed out of the door . |
| 4 | She rejoiced in being free from the place , but she talked of it with comprehension and critical affection . |
| 5 | Given the conception we have , are mental events as we have conceived them excluded from being physical ? |
| 6 | Sarah 's downfall came through being over-confident . |
| 7 | Here Dickens stayed for his holiday one year , baulked of being able to rant Fort House as he desired . |
| 8 | The Brat Pack came into being sometime in the early eighties . |
| 9 | The War Office Section MO 9 came into being that afternoon and began steps to raise the special force of commandos named after those Boer farmers of the South African war . |
| 10 | Thus it was , that at some momentous point in the immensity of time there came into being three initial units which can be taken as the true beginning of the story of earthly life . |
| 11 | The Spadeadam Rocket Establishment came into being some time after 1950 when the Cold War was at its height . |
| 12 | The Examination Council came into being some erm nine months ago and has already been involved in quite a lot of activity , I mean particularly the erm problem of sixteen-plus examining , whether we should move from a system of erm O-levels and C S E , or to a combined system , Sixteen-plus Examination it would probably be called . |
| 13 | Although Lewis had read Kafka and Virginia Woolf , the virtues of Proust or D. H. Lawrence or T. S. Eliot were virtues he delighted in being unable to see . |
| 14 | Fred Crocombe went on to work for Boulton Paul Aircraft , and often reflected on how close he came to being one of those many aviator 's lost mysteriously without a trace over the wide expanse of the sea . |
| 15 | It was a fair enough question , and when it came to being fair Fabia endorsed that she owed him this particular explanation . |
| 16 | By the third day of the war , Pentagon officials boasted of being able to drop as much as 5,000 tons of bombs a day on Baghdad — double the amount dropped by Allies during the 1945 bombing of Dresden . |
| 17 | My first reaction consisted of being grateful that we could afford a Penfield mood organ . |
| 18 | But it was to be a short-lived glory ; with his death the Bretwalda -ship passed elsewhere , and Sussex reverted from being prime among Saxon kingdoms to a minor position , on the periphery of the long-drawn-out struggle for national leadership between the rulers of Northumbria , Mercia and Wessex . |
| 19 | Jay toyed with being busy . |
| 20 | ‘ I lied about being gay , ’ went on Robert . |
| 21 | You lied about being able to sail . ’ |
| 22 | I always erred on being over-cautious at the last , but never faulted there so obviously my caution paid off ! |
| 23 | He led her quickly up a staircase which began by being broad and stone and went on up to twist woodenly to the top of the tower . |
| 24 | It did not set out to be radically different , though Haydn 's colourful scoring was certainly enhanced by the use of period instruments ( including a fortepiano in the recitatives and a bass line reinforced more consistently by bass trombone and contra bassoon ) , but it succeeded in being unforced and unfettered . |
| 25 | George McLennan , Les Knight , Peter Richardson and Adrian Robins recovered from being 1011 down at ten ends to beat J Willey , J Caldwell , J Jarvis , A Jones on a winning line by 16–12 . |
| 26 | Well , maybe ‘ blossom ’ is an exaggeration , but I told Gillian one or two of Oliver 's jokes , and we talked about being apprehensive over coming to the group , and then it emerged that she was half-French , and I had something to say about that , and the estate agent tried to bring in Germany but we were n't having any of it , and before I knew where I was I had half-turned my shoulder to exclude the other chap and was saying , ‘ Look , I know you 've only more or less just arrived , but you would n't like a spot of supper would you ? |
| 27 | He always felt slightly uncomfortable when Slater talked about being gay , though his friend was rarely specific . |
| 28 | He talked about being scared , started shaking and then begged Mr Davies not to leave him . |
| 29 | Alexander , who resolutely persisted in being rude to his new parent , was judged old enough for boarding school six months later . |
| 30 | It was here that the performance abandoned all semblance of script , but was nonetheless skilfully held together by the actors , who guided without being intrusive and did not for a moment step out of their roles . |