Example sentences of "[prep] [being] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laburnum , just beaten at the last Kempton meeting after being off the course since April , was the big weekend gamble yesterday . |
| 2 | ‘ He was the best horse I 've trained and was only just getting going again after being off the track for nearly a year . ’ |
| 3 | He finds it difficult to cope after being at the top as a player through natural talent . |
| 4 | After being at the Refuge on Saturday she woke early on Sunday morning , head crowded with things that needed thinking about and sorting out . |
| 5 | Bruce Reynolds and Buster Edwards were eventually senetnced after being on the run in Mexico . |
| 6 | They drank the Coca-Cola and Timothy consumed the Worthington E , saying it was just what he needed after being on the sauce the night before . |
| 7 | Whether it would fire after being in the river , I ca n't say . |
| 8 | And although the old woman 's premonition was an unhappy one and mention of Daniel caused her an immediate spear of pain , she nevertheless felt purged ; she always felt some elation after being in the company of the story-teller . |
| 9 | After being in the sun for some time , my skin feels like tissue . |
| 10 | After being in The Birthday Party , where everybody wanted their part to be as loud as is humanly possible , it 's quite refreshing to find someone who does n't even care if he 's on the record or not ! ’ |
| 11 | Instead of being about the size and shape of a coin , the fusulines are spindle-shaped , with a round cross-section tapering at both ends ; fusuline limestones again form thick rock sequences , particularly in Russia and the Orient . |
| 12 | Jimmy Somerville 's falsetto voice first grabbed people by the lapels on Bronski Beat 's excellent Smalltown Boy , which had the added virtue of being about the dilemma of a gay teenager . |
| 13 | Ruth no longer had any feeling of being below the sea . |
| 14 | Someone who trails in on his own faces the possibility of being over the time limit that eliminates him from the race as a whole . |
| 15 | They have a dimension of being beyond the reach of rational formulation , and they often disconcert us by behaving quite differently in one novel , in one volume , from what the previous volume had led us to expect . |
| 16 | A system of retention ratios at least gives exporters part of the benefits due to them , since they are assured of most of their import needs , and can sell any surplus foreign exchange on the black market to other enterprises , who also benefit by being able to obtain foreign exchange at a price instead of being at the mercy of administrative decisions by bureaucrats . |
| 17 | No 3225 Set by Watson Weeks Following the TV exposé of the horrors/miracle of being at the school founded by A S Neill , could we have a Speech Day address by the principal of Summerhill ; an explanation by a parent of why they have chosen it ; or a statement by a former pupil of the advantages gained by a Summerhill education . |
| 18 | As I read , I am struck again by the laibon 's sense of being at the centre of the universe . |
| 19 | Instead of being at the top , they were being concentrated in middle management , where all the hard detailed work had to be done . |
| 20 | There was a sense of importance , of being at the heart of things . |
| 21 | Instead of being at the controls , he was desperately clinging on while the engines , at full throttle , thrust the boat violently from side to side as a host of faction fighters wrestled to grab the wheel — or in most cases to avoid touching it . |
| 22 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 23 | The main result that emerges from such an existential self-analysis is that man owes his understanding of the meaning of being to the fact that he exists in an object-transcending manner , and is therefore able to conceive of the possibility of nothingness , i.e. of the world not existing at all . |
| 24 | And also just the the whole erm general feeling of being with the people in the flats . |
| 25 | There 's always the pressure of playing , of course , and the dangers of being on the road and playing the songs night after night — it 's all too easy to fall into some kind of rut . |
| 26 | A restless excitement stirs in him , a sense of being on the verge of deep and different things . |
| 27 | A restless excitement stirs in him , a sense of being on the verge of deep and different things … |
| 28 | The road has only recently come to Uçagiz ; the whole area emanates a powerful feeling of being on the edge of the world . |
| 29 | What kept her from coming down to bathe and witness the enjoyment her child got out of being on the seashore ? |
| 30 | Whereas for me the rigours of the Second World War meant two ounces of butter a week and five inches of bath-water , for Jean-Claude they had involved near-starvation on a diet of turnips — and the dangers of being on the run . |