Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] to being " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a bit she became used to being stared at , even taking it as a compliment . |
| 2 | ‘ I just got used to being in her shadow and I still thought there were people who did n't reckon I was better , ’ said Smith . |
| 3 | THIS BUILDING , WITH its exceptionally fine stone carving , came near to being demolished in 1980 . |
| 4 | The other time I came near to being shot was in May , when nobody should have been firing a rifle . |
| 5 | Still , the struggle within Parliament for the reform of Parliament came near to being a revolution on whose comprehensive and rolling tumbril Owenites and Owenism could have expected to secure , as a preliminary to the reconstitution of the country as an industrial democracy , a terminal passage for the old corrupt order . |
| 6 | He encouraged Sir Warren Fisher , the permanent secretary of the Treasury , and other senior civil servants to busy themselves with the drawing up of constitutional memoranda which came near to being ultimata . |
| 7 | Long , of Perranporth , Cornwall , pleaded guilty to being drunk in charge of his coach on August 7 . |
| 8 | Alan Murray ( 29 ) , of Garryduff Road , Ballymoney , who pleaded guilty to being in the UVF , received a three-year jail sentence , suspended for three years . |
| 9 | She sounded close to being afraid . |