Example sentences of "i [vb base] [verb] being " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm with you , for a start , and I happen to like being with you . |
| 2 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 3 | I seem to remember being told that the latest policy is to turn water cannon on the nurses ; that does not strike me as the most helpful approach . |
| 4 | I seem to recall being the culprit who caused this trouble . ’ |
| 5 | I do love being in proper country . |
| 6 | Erm sometimes I do find being in Harlow very hard erm and there 's a lot of unemployment , there 's a lot of depression , there are a lot of one parent families and er the children ha er in one family they 've all got different dads |
| 7 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 8 | But I do remember being impressed by the various fathers who came home on leave and the colourful uniforms they wore , more especially those who wore the " maternity jacket " of the Royal Flying corps . |
| 9 | Mm I bet it 's been twisted I 've had experience of things I 've said being in the paper and not coming out as I 've said them . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've loved being single and independent in my 20s , ’ says Anthea , ‘ but , as 30 beckons , I 'm asking myself if not having a life partner by now means that I may never have one . |
| 11 | I 've imagined being in bed with him . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've stopped being surprised by the number of people , including priests , who like the odd punt . |
| 13 | I 'm already past the statutory retirement age and besides , I 've enjoyed being with the people in Harwich so I 'd like to stick with them if I can . ’ |
| 14 | I 've enjoyed being with you . |
| 15 | But I 've enjoyed being here , I hope you 've enjoyed it as much as I have , and I look forward to the next time that I 'm sitting in the hot seat ; until then , from me , goodbye . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've tried being polite … ’ |
| 17 | I have to practise being on my own . ’ |