Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] being [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He often says unkind things to me , blaming me for the break-up of our marriage and accusing me of being a useless wife . |
| 2 | Of course he 'd always been enchanted , but , before , it had been too deep in his mind to be fully felt ; he 'd only known there was something that kept him empty inside , stopped him from being a proper person . |
| 3 | He was n't going to accuse her of being a fair-weather boatman . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is the extraordinary popularity of The Color Purple that has led some critics to accuse it of being an uncontentious , sentimental and harmless piece of libertarianism , a family homily that is not just optimistic but eventually even utopian . |
| 5 | ‘ No-one could accuse me of being a half-b-b-bottle man , ’ said Ricky . |
| 6 | No doubt you will merely accuse me of being an old fuddy-duddy trying to stop young people having fun . |
| 7 | Connie 's self-knowledge and her unspoken fear of cowardice save her from being a precious bore ; and writing the book in the third person , even though from Connie 's viewpoint , was a good idea . |
| 8 | Suspecting him of being a reckless daredevil was one thing . |
| 9 | She might not trust Guy Sterne , she might not even like him very much , she might suspect him of being a ruthless womaniser and profiteer … but she wanted him here , with her … now where was the logic in that ? |
| 10 | Only the fact that these strong fibres are generally quite small prevents the operation of breaking them from being a dangerous one . |
| 11 | But Lisa 's high society wedding to Marco last August , attended by Michael and Shakira Caine , Keith Floyd and Albert Roux , thrust her from being a successful model into full membership of Diana 's prized circle . |
| 12 | Still , that does n't stop it from being an accurate prophecy , does it ? ’ |
| 13 | He hates him for being the initial cause of his mother 's addiction and also the receiver of most of her attention . |
| 14 | However , the fact that there is some restriction on the power of the company to deal with assets subject to a charge does not preclude it from being a floating charge . |
| 15 | I think the monarchy is stopping us from being a classless society but I ca n't think of one country in the world whether it 's communist , whether it 's a new country like Australia what does n't have the rich , the poor , the upper class and the lower |
| 16 | It was only when friends accused me of being a pompous , humourless prat that I realised it was meant as a joke . |
| 17 | Who said his age excused him from being a male chauvinist ? |
| 18 | Arlen Specter ( Pennsylvania ) accused her without substantiating evidence of " flat-out perjury " , and introduced without prior notice an affidavit from an acquaintance of Hill who accused her of being a sexual fantasist . |
| 19 | Dostam 's support for Masud had signalled the end of the Najibullah regime , but Hekmatyar accused him of being a communist and a war criminal . |
| 20 | Thank you for being my guide and my inspiration , for being a wonderful father to my little girl and , above all , thank you for being the best husband in the world . |
| 21 | ‘ I wanted to write , but when you study English literature it paralyses you from being a creative writer , because what you read is so wonderful all the time , you feel you ca n't possibly pit yourself against them and try yourself . ’ |
| 22 | George Barker had taken his place in 1940 but had escaped to the United States before Pearl Harbor , for he had been followed everywhere by the ‘ thought police ’ , the sinister kempeitai , who suspected him of being a communist spy . |