Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean between being a Spaniard and a Majorcan … ’ |
| 2 | Now that 's what I mean about being dishonest . |
| 3 | I owned to being the coward , traitor , thief and fairy they saw in me . |
| 4 | I long for being in real contact with them . |
| 5 | ‘ Am I exonerated from being a wimp ? ’ |
| 6 | It 's like should I resign for being involved in a sex scandal ? |
| 7 | OK , I apologise for being a clod . |
| 8 | Lord O'Hagan , the group 's social affairs spokesman , said : ‘ I object to being misrepresented and I want to make sure that this sort of thing does not happen again . ’ |
| 9 | I object to being called the ‘ Black Panther ’ . |
| 10 | " I do n't mind investigating poisonings on the farms but I object to being poisoned myself in my own home ! " |
| 11 | But I 'm not a fool and I object to being thought one . |
| 12 | I have never smoked and I object to being poisoned by other people 's indulgence . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm in a deep hole I dug by being deep ’ ) . |
| 14 | I know without being told what a difficult language it is to pronounce with English oral equipment , but they also beat their brows in anguish wailing , ‘ Oh , the mutations . ’ |
| 15 | Many people like the bicoloured ivy-leaved varieties ; I confess to being quite charmed by the bushy ‘ Pink Gay Baby ’ , with its bright pink double flowers each lined in dark magenta . |
| 16 | I confess to being sceptical about the whole enterprise , but readers who agree with Hughes that we need a drama that blends the sacred with the secular , on the model of the best Greek tragedies , may feel differently . |
| 17 | I confess to being an edge-of-the-seat man myself , and for those who share this taste , Oppitz 's literal , unrhetorical manner will be too comfortable by half . |
| 18 | After two years of debate in the church , during which and many other points such as these have been raised , I confess to being deeply disappointed with the statement before us today . |
| 19 | ‘ I lied about being gay , ’ went on Robert . |
| 20 | He said , I hope I 'm not embarrassing you but I believe in being frank . |
| 21 | ‘ What possible reason could I have for being tense ? |
| 22 | ‘ I talk about being black because I 'm proud to be , ’ says Christie . |
| 23 | Just a bit of stomach I feel like being kicked in the stomach by a like a horse but that 's about it . |
| 24 | I like them like that because what I tend to do with so I like them that big because then I can cut them up into sticks , stick them in the fridge , then if I feel like being naughty not ever so naughty because I 'm nibbling at carrots rather than a packet of crisps or something . |
| 25 | Unless I feel like being really vindictive , |
| 26 | I started by being a very straight economic historian . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ When I was young I dreamed of being like her . |
| 29 | He 's almost halfway across and suddenly I go from being terrified and annoyed to being exhilarated , intoxicated ; overjoyed . |
| 30 | In nineteen eighty three from nineteen fifty three after thirty years of making cheese , they changed his job , I think many of you are ahead of me already , he said I was given a job change and I began working in landscaping , how nice while being interviewed some time ago I was asked what I thought about being giving a job change after thirty years of making cheese and he said well it did n't bother me , I noted , frankly because I did n't like making cheese anyway |