Example sentences of "being both [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under thunderheads , beneath cloudcover like a coated tongue with a doctor 's pencil-torch playing on it , as in A dark carnival , we protest the Vietnam War , with vivified , uplifted faces , with the press of bodies all moving the same way , and with that sense of being both lost and right , lost and right . |
| 2 | Kathleen Woodward 's mother of the 1890s was the one I knew : mothers were people who told you how long they were in labour with you , how much you hurt , how hard it was to have you ( " twenty hours with you , " my mother frequently reminded me ) and who told you to accept the impossible contradiction of being both desired and being a burden , and not to complain . |
| 3 | Elean:In your situation , you need a common language to help break down the divisions being both aggravated and imposed by the racist regime . |
| 4 | ‘ Hardly , but I do admit to being both baffled and intrigued . |
| 5 | This led to skinheads being both hated and feared . |
| 6 | This results in the association between the links being preserved ( ie as translation or rotation between them ) , but also in link B being both translated and rotated with respect to the reference space ( see Figure 7.38B ) . |
| 7 | Some five years ago when I first encountered the system on a trip to America I recall being both impressed and disappointed . |
| 8 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 9 | He was convinced he was being both watched and listened to ; by the Russians , if by no-one else . |