Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] being the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think Oliver likes me for being the way I am . |
| 2 | She , too , was a ‘ scholarship girl ’ and we prided ourselves on being the two most intelligent girls in the place . |
| 3 | She said angrily , ‘ How do you know that Emma suspects me of being the root cause of her troubles ? |
| 4 | But I think , I mean they seem , these people had a , a jurisdiction of between ten to fifty si fifty or sixty thousand people , now so th th he 's , Mao 's saying that not all of them are , are evil , not all of them are , it 's only some who are but I think every sixty thousand more than likely are gon na look at theirs as being the evil one , that they are going to want to , to overthrow . |
| 5 | The conductor prided himself on being the ‘ captain' of the train , a sort of superior butler with a whole range of footmen , menials , and tweenies under his command . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This paradoxical state of affairs is the result of three factors : due , first , to the large number of commanders who , like Wojciech Jaruzelski , trace their formative upbringing to the USSR and the Soviet organised First and Second Polish Armies of the Second World War ; secondly , to the social ostracism suffered by officers belonging to an army which prides itself on being the guardian of Communist as well as national values . |
| 8 | The ’ safety-deposit planet ’ , as it was called , prided itself on being the most secure place in the galaxy — and also one of the most law-abiding . |
| 9 | Having disciplined , explored and contained my own metaphysical anguish , having put down my own last worthy appetites , having separated myself by conscious decision from the filth and decadence of modern society , it is inevitable that my own hard-won sense of propriety or dignity should tempt me into being the scourge of other , more self-indulgent beings , fictional or not . |
| 10 | Men and women are all one in being the bride . |
| 11 | For Marx is trying to develop a theory which will apply universally , and the fact ( if it is a fact ) that individuals who live in different societies do not share constant properties is enough to disqualify them from being the rock on which social explanations are founded . |
| 12 | Margaret Seymour-Strachey ( who prided herself on being the perfect daughter-in-law ) would do anything for her husband 's mother except bring her children into overmuch contact with her . |
| 13 | But I have known many people — salespeople , surgeons , journalists , scholars , even musicians — who did have them without being the least bit ‘ entrepreneurial . ’ |
| 14 | He hates him for being the initial cause of his mother 's addiction and also the receiver of most of her attention . |
| 15 | Of course , it was a shame about that incident when she assaulted the headmaster , but he should n't really have laughed at her for being the only child there who does n't take drugs . |
| 16 | I virtually accused him of being the one responsible for sending the men to meet me . ’ |
| 17 | So what 's it like being the biggest star in America 's most talented family ? |
| 18 | If they are to get full influence for the purpose of bringing constituencies up to the mark , they can only get it by being the channels for help . |
| 19 | I pride myself on being the hardest man on the planet but Dickerson has just reduced my bones to powder . |
| 20 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |