Example sentences of "being [adv] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the image would n't come , it was softly blotted out in this warm , rosy room with drawers and cupboards being gently closed upon the last of her possessions and Lyddy asking her which dress she wanted laid out for dinner . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's just not true , ’ she protested , ‘ his innocence did n't prevent him from being wrongly accused in the first place , did it ? ’ |
| 3 | WAYNE FERREIRA won himself $100,000 yesterday — for being humiliatingly beaten in the first round of the Compaq Grand Slam Cup . |
| 4 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 5 | Moreover , far from being simply denied in the nineteenth century , sex acquires a peculiar significance in structuring ideology and social and political practices , and in shaping individual responses . |
| 6 | But more to the point , Shakespeare did n't envisage Agincourt being fully enacted in the first place . |
| 7 | Both dogs were in action at Brough Park last week , with Fortunate Man justifying odds of 2–5 by winning the £2,000 Tyneside St Leger over 670 metres and the Irish-owned Bodies Lisa winning a £100 open over 825 metres after being seriously hampered at the first bend . |