Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | John is the only person I talk to about how ugly and disgusting I feel , how fat I think I am , how much I hate myself for being out of control . |
| 2 | I hate myself for being weak , and wish I were younger and stronger , but I 'm 68 years old and no match for them . |
| 3 | I was excited at the thought of finding fossils eight hundred miles from the sea , but I chastised myself for being so stupid . |
| 4 | ‘ Do I pride myself on being one element in the show 's overall success ? |
| 5 | I pride myself on being the hardest man on the planet but Dickerson has just reduced my bones to powder . |
| 6 | By drawing together a variety of material , it builds up a picture of inequity which ‘ is inexcusable in a democratic society which prides itself on being humane ’ . |
| 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 | At stake the image of a party which prides itself on being loyal , but which has been riven by dissent . |
| 9 | On the other hand , since it is mostly women who are responsible for running households and caring for dependent members of their families , it is not surprising that they are involved in helping each other in these practical ways , which lend themselves to being organized on a reciprocal basis . |
| 10 | In the case of Letitia , who had married an Irish baronet , Sir Thomas Wyse , her refusal to accept the Emperor 's decision that she confine herself to being Lady Wyse , dropping all imperial pretensions by calling herself Bonaparte Wyse , led to her being expelled from France . |
| 11 | Wright , who prides himself on being a fierce competitor , was not impressed by the manager 's outburst — but answered the criticism in the best way possible , by scoring Arsenal 's first goal and then keeping them going as Derby fought their way back into the game . |
| 12 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She hated herself for being impressed and frightened by London , but she was impressed and frightened all the same . |
| 15 | Silently she cursed herself for being such a damned fool . |
| 16 | In fact , you castigate yourself for being suspicious . |
| 17 | At others , she despised herself for being selfish , even wicked , for not being able to help people who needed her support so much . |
| 18 | She valued herself on being self-supporting , ‘ enabled to pay my own expenses many times , at Inns , by printing ’ . |
| 19 | While everyone else goes about believing 60 or 65 to be the correct retirement age , those who pride themselves on being positive about age have lifted the chronological sights to 70 . |
| 20 | People who pride themselves on being rational wo n't walk under ladders . |
| 21 | ( If you pride yourself on being intelligent , for example , bear in mind that someone else might have chosen to have a limited intellect in this life in order to learn from the experience , perhaps because they have over-valued intelligence in the past . ) |
| 22 | She , too , was a ‘ scholarship girl ’ and we prided ourselves on being the two most intelligent girls in the place . |
| 23 | We pride ourselves in being able to offer anyone and everyone the OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE in their chosen sport or leisure pursuit . |
| 24 | In his own bed in Mill Hill Rufus used a sheath or practised coitus interruptus , which he prided himself on being rather good at . |
| 25 | He prided himself on being a very well esteemed member of the British community . |
| 26 | Like the previous management of the Dee Hall , he prided himself upon being ‘ a good employer ’ and was generous in terms of sick pay and sympathetic and understanding towards employees with family problems . |
| 27 | As the Doctrine Commission puts it , ‘ He exposes Himself to being acted upon and , in that sense , being compelled to change . ’ |
| 28 | Briefly with the SAS in the Second World War , he distinguished himself by being wholly ignorant of whether a wheel nut was to be undone clockwise or not . |
| 29 | That day he committed himself to being a busker . |
| 30 | He blames himself for being naive about how such centres come into being , and about how they can be run . |