Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] being [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 2 | What has all this got to do with being sixty ? |
| 3 | Well , he could understand that , but he still thought it was a wasteful way of keeping the lower ranks occupied , and it did n't square at all with the continual excuses the seneschal and his minions kept making about being under-staffed . |
| 4 | I liked to play at being bright . |
| 5 | By 1981 , it had fallen from being four per cent of the population in 1971 , to just 3.49 per cent . |
| 6 | I had chosen to join the 10th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment , and the preliminary training evenings were geared towards physical exercise , getting us ready for ‘ P Company ’ , the tests which every aspiring paratrooper , territorial or regular , had to pass before being able to wear his coveted maroon beret . |
| 7 | If , moreover , at this early date , sizeable Nazarean enclaves existed as far distant as Syria , one can not ignore the possibility that they had come into being prior to Jesus 's death and were already established at the time of the Crucifixion . |
| 8 | ‘ God in his mercy , lend her grace , ’ she muttered , thinking of Anna , her Anna , who had grown from being such a dull child into a truly engaging woman , a woman so richly deserving of being lent a little of God 's grace . |
| 9 | Donaldson had got over being self-conscious about his signing quite early on in his training , but as he squatted down before the cage and made a greeting sign he felt that early embarrassment returning . |
| 10 | By the time he called it a day , he had played in 60 Tests and taken 249 wickets at 23 , and like all of his fast-bowling colleagues had benefited from being one of a quartet as he could operate in short spells and rest more often . |
| 11 | As creator the sun god had brought into being other cosmic powers , those of air ( Shu ) , earth ( Geb ) and sky ( Nut ) . |
| 12 | The Carlow men , ahead two goals and three points to five points within sight of half-time , had to settle for being level at the break after Mick McCarthy 's well struck goal . |
| 13 | If I had admitted to being cold , I should also have had to admit that I was hungry , and this was something I was incapable of doing — if only because I did n't believe it to be true . |
| 14 | She had planned on being ultra-cool , whatever provocation he might throw at her , and yet at the first word here she was letting him get to her all over again ! |
| 15 | That was the young man 's name , and within minutes of crossing the threshold , he had insisted on being one of the family . |
| 16 | But for our last point we had to rely on being half-right about two issues : we rightly predicted a Common Market between the US and Canada — but wrongly thought it would also include Mexico and Venezuela ; and we predicted that unemployment would rise sharply in the West , causing more flexible working patterns — but were over-optimistic about the implications , seeing masses of people returning to school in middle life and then starting a new career . |
| 17 | In less than 30 years , the British economy had declined from being one of the strongest to one of the weakest in Europe . |
| 18 | It 's not my day really earlier today I had to admit to being grateful to John Gummer now I 'm gon na have to be . |
| 19 | The station pilot at Holyhead , a Class 08 Diesel Shunter , had failed before being able to shunt the rake of NWCE coaches from the sidings and into the platform . |