Example sentences of "[verb] [being] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Lindsey came on and sat in for a couple of numbers and really enjoyed being back on the boards with us lot .
2 She felt guilty at how much she enjoyed being out of the house , even out of the village .
3 She enjoyed being out in the crisp fresh air , enjoyed every moment of stepping out on well-worn pathways with trees all around .
4 He said , yeah , I like being home with the family .
5 One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim .
6 ‘ You should try being more like the children you admire , ’ she said , sadness in her eyes .
7 The French goal ace had feared being out of the game for two months after hobbling out of the 3-0 first leg defeat with a damaged hamstring .
8 I loved being out on the sea — it felt much more like ‘ real ’ sailing than being on a lake .
9 If it meant being away from the family for more than a week it was out .
10 I had heard , not La Ruée vers l'or , ‘ ruée' being quite outside the bounds of my vocabulary , but ‘ La rue Everlor ’ .
11 Well I think being outside in the garden and cleaning
12 ‘ It 's easy work , ’ she confided in Rosie , ‘ because really I love being here on the complex .
13 And also given the nature of the kind of people who want to wield authority over others they ca n't bear being out of the limelight , it gives them one last throw .
14 Time was when a priest used to put it in the parish mag if he intended being out of the parish for more than twenty-four hours .
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