Example sentences of "[pers pn] be be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am being taken to the realms of the People , who hate nature as much as they hate me , who am unnatural . |
| 2 | ‘ I have varied music tastes , but gradually I 'm being converted to Elvis . |
| 3 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 4 | I found I was being sent to some ghastly hole , miles from civilisation , on top of the Lincolnshire wolds , and as I trekked sullenly north , little did I know how the course of my life was about to be permanently changed . |
| 5 | I felt as if my soul was filling with honey and manna and that I was being brought to a mystic feast . |
| 6 | I thought I was being taken to the prison but instead found myself outside the door of Le Coq d'Or . |
| 7 | The leak was accurate and I was being forced to the floor of the House of Commons to defend a policy before it had been to Cabinet . |
| 8 | I mean of course you 're going to be judged adversely perhaps , but i in a church you are being listened to by people who are of like mind , and therefore willing you to have something of value and interest to say to them . |
| 9 | You 're being transferred to the Correctional Labour Colonies , but you wo n't be classified as a foreigner , you wo n't be in the foreigners ' camp . |
| 10 | ‘ To hear you talk , anyone would think you were being sent to prison ! ’ |
| 11 | What was useful was to know that you were being taken to him . ’ |
| 12 | The injured included a 24-year-old woman who had to be resuscitated from a heart attack as she was being flown to hospital by helicopter . |
| 13 | She was being led to a place that many people had heard about , but only a handful of desperate , hunted souls had actually seen . |
| 14 | Ellie wondered to herself what new department she was being taken to now . |
| 15 | ‘ I could hear the assistant quickly telling her about the person she was being introduced to . |
| 16 | Luke 's words and their possible implication slammed belatedly into her brain as she was being introduced to the entertainment editor of a local newspaper , but natural incredulity dismissed them as more talk , just words carelessly plucked from an inadequate language . |
| 17 | Elisabeth calculated correctly that a glance in Mitzi 's direction would satisfy the Austrian that she was being listened to . |
| 18 | She was being towed to the breakers when she began to take in water ( probably through the conning tower hatch which was only lashed down for the tow ) and sank . |
| 19 | Maggie dimly became aware that she was being spoken to . |
| 20 | Claudia lost her breath ; this was intolerable — not only had she been forced to accompany him on a wild chase after Garry Turner , but she was being subjected to what amounted to sexual harassment . |
| 21 | Kate found it difficult to keep her colour from rising under the enthusiastic appreciation she was being subjected to , and , to try and break the dangerous spell , she broke into provocative speech . |
| 22 | To her credit , she tried very hard not to even once look over at the table , though she was being subjected to the constant tinkle of happy laughter , which made her think Matthew must be at his witty best . |
| 23 | The girl was doused with petrol and set alight after complaining that she was being subjected to ‘ Eve-teasing , ’ the Indian euphemism for sexual harassment , rife in a culture in which dating is unusual . |
| 24 | Either she was a Madonna and people did n't give her credit for being one , or else she was trying to be one and people were trying to stop her or possibly she was being forced to be one against her better judgement . |
| 25 | She was being shepherded to safety by police after the first blast when the second bomb exploded just 50 ft away . |
| 26 | We are being taken to the ‘ limits of pain ’ brought on by a means of transport which is too loud , ugly , congested , dirty , dangerous and expensive . |
| 27 | And I 've got a an all day meeting , I 've arranged it on the Tuesday that 's if we 're being presented to . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're being listened to and referred to by the Water Research Centre , by the Environment Council , by the Royal Yachting Association and by other local MPs . |
| 29 | No I think that we should wait and see what we 're being offered to us cos there 's a lot of er you know |
| 30 | We are told that , having lost an empire , we can have a new role in a European superstate , as if we were being asked to be its leader — which we are not . |