Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forgive me for being a little cynical of that . ’ |
| 2 | He says , ‘ The superintendent wo n't recommend me for being a policeman . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's always been that — I 've known it all my life — you 've never forgiven me for being a girl — that 's why you love Bri and you do n't love me — you wanted a boy — you always wanted a boy and all you got was a girl — all you got was me ! ’ |
| 4 | There was a girl called Carmen , she was the queen Reject , she just let me hang around with them so she could sneer at me for being a moony . |
| 5 | So excuse me for being a little thick . |
| 6 | He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie . |
| 7 | But I think Oliver likes me for being the way I am . |
| 8 | One was that Williams knew nothing about being a music editor . |
| 9 | And the only thing you have to ask me about is the group pick up , which I have n't mentioned have I . |
| 10 | Irena took an unofficial day off work and we wandered through the damp streets while she told me about being a student at Palacky University in 1968 ( and what happened afterwards : ‘ It is strange how the history books of a country can change , is n't it ? ’ ) . |
| 11 | Deliver it to your home Well , what I to is the erm , getting involved in . |
| 12 | And I to be a corporal of his field , |
| 13 | But , you say , ought n't I to be a policeman or a former policeman myself , like John Wainwright , to be able to do this ? |
| 14 | ‘ Am I to be a king , or just a pig ? ’ |
| 15 | He had worked in Belfast in the late 1940s , and compared the Labour scene in Derry unfavourably with that of the larger city : ‘ We may pride ourselves on being a city but politically we are still a small Ulster town . ’ |
| 16 | She , too , was a ‘ scholarship girl ’ and we prided ourselves on being the two most intelligent girls in the place . |
| 17 | And it was a year in which we were able to declare ourselves to be a good research and teaching university . |
| 18 | We have , of course , developed many other ways to show ourselves to be the masters of all creation — fox-hunting , fur-wearing , bull-fighting , and perhaps even scientific vivisection , to name but a few . |
| 19 | I would prefer America rather than France , Germany or ourselves to be the nuclear power . |
| 20 | Lotze 's sentence was , however , above the nine years requested by the prosecution ; the court did not consider his to be a true case of state 's evidence , since it had neither led to further arrests nor prevented a crime . |
| 21 | To know someone to be a gouger gives some policemen and women cause to believe that they have the excuse to ignore the minor requests for assistance that the person may make , and for his or her minor infringements of the law to be taken seriously . |
| 22 | While that child is away , the organizer chooses someone to be the murderer . |
| 23 | Except where a certificate for summary administration has been issued , as soon as practicable in the twelve week period after the making of a bankruptcy order , the official receiver must decide whether or not to summon a meeting of creditors for the purpose of choosing someone to be the trustee of the estate in his place ( s 293(1) ) . |
| 24 | The accuser of the brethren is always on hand to accuse them of being a failure or out , of the will of God . |
| 25 | Although the RIC was a vital arm of British administration in Ireland , to say nothing of being a model for police forces throughout the Empire , it has never been fully studied . |
| 26 | It was only when friends accused me of being a pompous , humourless prat that I realised it was meant as a joke . |
| 27 | He often says unkind things to me , blaming me for the break-up of our marriage and accusing me of being a useless wife . |
| 28 | ‘ No-one could accuse me of being a half-b-b-bottle man , ’ said Ricky . |
| 29 | As it was , most people laughed , one bright spark asked if I was going to sell him something and a female student in a park scarf accused me of being a pervert . |
| 30 | Before you accuse me of being a spoilsport I think there 's a place for water-skiing , but it 's not in a National Park . |