Example sentences of "[pron] being [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | My being hemmed in by well-armed stalwarts , was part of the plan . |
| 2 | ‘ Margaret , how did your chum Richard take my being rung up by a patient ? ’ |
| 3 | It can be news of a member of the congregation 's promotion or someone 's marriage or — even better — someone being run over by a lorry , but there is always news . |
| 4 | ‘ At the very least , ’ says Ian Hawkins ‘ it avoids their being crawled over by the competition . ’ |
| 5 | Ironically , given the severe limitations of freedom of speech planned in the future fascist state , Mosley deemed it necessary to protect that liberty by providing more rigorous stewarding of public meetings to prevent them being broken up by left-wing activists . |
| 6 | Certainly , no day of their early childhood ever ended without one or both of them being beaten up by someone . |
| 7 | Some of them being held up by friends . |
| 8 | To avoid his being rounded up by the Germans for STO ( Service du Travail Obligatoire ) and sent to the munitions factories in the east , Montaine and Mme Guérigny hid Jean-Claude in a sunken hollow in the grounds of a crumbling manor house at the edge of the village . |
| 9 | The third earl designed this house himself with a view to it being lived in by his eldest son and subsequent heirs . |
| 10 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 11 | The best way to " lock up " the caesium , to prevent it being taken up by plants and into the food chain , is by spreading the affected areas with certain minerals , most successfully ammonium ferric hexacyanoferrate , or Prussian blue , which turns the hills blue . |