Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] being [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the conception we have , are mental events as we have conceived them excluded from being physical ? |
| 2 | ‘ I lied about being gay , ’ went on Robert . |
| 3 | I counted on being able to dodge my way on to the ferry and I did n't think I would need any money once I got to France . |
| 4 | I apologised for being curt with the lecherous one and said that maybe we 'd meet for a drink . |
| 5 | The first person I ever came out to as a student was a person I suspected of being gay and everyone else thought he was gay ; in fact , he vehemently denied it after I came out . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And he rarely complained during his recuperation from the first back operation , to repair a number of fractures , which looked like being successful when he returned for Middlesex at the start of 1991 and took four for 60 against Somerset with a performance which particularly impressed his own wicket-keeper Paul Farbrace . |
| 8 | It was just as well Devoy clinched the issue in three games , for she admitted to being tired . |
| 9 | She rejoiced in being free from the place , but she talked of it with comprehension and critical affection . |
| 10 | You lied about being able to sail . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It did not take them long to make their minds up : mobility , Jessica said , was the nicest thing she knew about being well-off . |
| 13 | The Swanage grammar-school boy who dreamed of being Prime Minister was dispensable after all . |
| 14 | Most of all she did n't like being too far from town to join a Brownie Guide Pack — and even now , when she looked like being able to get into the town , she could n't join the Brownie Pack ! |
| 15 | ‘ Is this also what you meant by being psychic ? ’ |
| 16 | You knew with being pregnant , if you were sick or anything , you still had to go to classes . |
| 17 | She went from being childish , not caring for social conventions and so spoilt that she could follow any whim she liked , to realising how nai ‘ 3vely and shameful her ‘ rebellion ’ really was . |
| 18 | And I suspect it 's the same kind of actual physical complaint that women who complained of being depressed have . |
| 19 | She looked at Roman , so strong and dependable ; any woman would give thanks every day of her life for a man like him , and she had just ruined any chance she had of being that woman . |
| 20 | She apologised for being early , but Helen said , ‘ I was expecting you . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was a fair enough question , and when it came to being fair Fabia endorsed that she owed him this particular explanation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He survived by being efficient at his work , if not deliberately unimaginative at times . |
| 28 | He talked about being scared , started shaking and then begged Mr Davies not to leave him . |
| 29 | For a moment he thought of being ill , but he could n't be ill for ever . |
| 30 | Anyway , th the guy we had tonight reckoned that er he never quite got to grips with er Bernstein and he 's f and he , he apologized for being stuck in restrictive which er he could n't even remember that it was called restrictive until somebody told him but he said ah yes that 's it , but yes I never managed to he said I never managed to really get very far with that . |