Example sentences of "[being] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , being down to earth is one of Pam 's greatest strengths , and it 's good to know she 's back on track and that we 'll still be able to laugh with her for a while yet . |
| 2 | One agent in North 's employ remembered being over at CIA headquarters one day when a call came in to him from North , ‘ and everybody in the room gave me a dirty look . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ QIS has made a very successful job of forming corporate glue ’ across locations between colleagues and now the inevitable fragmentation and the feeling of being up for grabs ’ is destroying links and making people retreat into defending their own area . |
| 4 | ‘ I fully intend being up at dawn to see the ship dock . |
| 5 | It 's terribly suspicious , Reinhard , you being up in Denmark when the old fox flies away . |
| 6 | I thought of Hugh being up in Perth |
| 7 | and erm but erm even so getting to and from the bus was a bit of a problem , unfortunately I 've never had erm been one of these people who have got the nerve to erm go about a great deal by themselves and erm being up in London you know , immediately before the war I had erm , it was n't very easy getting about so erm and erm I was n't very |
| 8 | SINGLE travellers would be justified in being up in arms over InterCity Sleeper 's latest ad suggesting that you : ‘ Save money . |
| 9 | It may be that the government has a proportion of the blame but you 're not surely condoning teachers who have these problems being up in front of children in the classroom ? |
| 10 | Oxfordshire 's children 's line is being relaunched this evening ; posters carrying the slogan ‘ help is only a phone call away ’ have being up in schools and sports venues throughout the area , and the line opens at six thirty — ten minutes time . |
| 11 | As for being out with Susan , Tom and Cyril , that seemed like an eternity ago . |
| 12 | you do something you consider wrong or contrary to your self-imposed standards ( ie letting someone down , pilfering , having an extra-marital affair , forgetting someone 's birthday , being out at work when the children come home from school ) . |
| 13 | The main themes which appeared to make the case newsworthy were firstly , a gang rape ; secondly , a racial theme , since the newspapers clearly identified the rapists as black and the girls as white in both words and pictures ; thirdly , controversy over the sentencing being ‘ too light ’ ; fourthly , controversy as to whether the girls could be held to have contributed to their own rape by being out at night . |
| 14 | A further controversy was over whether the girls could be considered to have brought the rape on themselves by being out at night . |
| 15 | They suggested that by being out at night the young women had contributed in some way to their own rapes , even though they were merely returning by bus to their homes . |
| 16 | ‘ In that house over there , ’ I said , ‘ and I 'm not at all afraid of being out at night . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , of course there 's always some reflected light , once your eyes get used to being out at night . |
| 18 | The singing is full of strident , screechy voices , and one need never worry about being out of tune in Madeiran folk singing . |
| 19 | E two if it was carried forward sir after this morning 's discussion also does n't help us because , as the county made clear this morning and made very clear just a minute ago , it would use such a policy , it sees its position as being to block erm the er inward investment planning terms to block it as er erm being out of tune with the county 's general conservation and environmental policies . |
| 20 | The girls exchanged nervous glances , thinking that it must be Miss Hardbroom come to reprimand them for being out of bed . |
| 21 | Even the sun , as if to mark my sudden sense of relief at being out of Czechoslovakia , chose to put in an appearance . |
| 22 | ‘ They 're good players but have n't sulked at being out of things . |
| 23 | An action lies for damage which the plaintiff has suffered through being out of possession of land . |
| 24 | The Steward 's staff seem to have heard a rumour about his being out of favour with the War Office , but he seemed a most efficient and kindly gentleman to us , with the welfare of children very much at heart . |
| 25 | I do n't much like being out of door in the rain or the extreme cold or even the extreme heat — although when the weather is right I hugely enjoy walking aimlessly and observing all about me . |
| 26 | Kenneth Renton , of Wentworth Investment Services , was yesterday arrested by City of London police at Heathrow Airport after being out of contact since last Friday . |
| 27 | There was a pretty pathetic little click , it being out of bullets and everything . |
| 28 | Being out of school gave him a wonderful feeling . |
| 29 | But in even-handedly denouncing ardent Europhiles and Europhobes as ‘ superannuated Sumo wrestlers ’ he was , in effect , accusing Downing Street of being out of date — even on worker participation in industry and the Social Charter . |
| 30 | It seemed that our genuine concerns and grievances were largely ignored and we were dismissed as being out of date and out of touch . |