I was being amused.

I’m not being funny.

How do you like being an interne?

And being away from home so much.

You’ve less chance of being killed.

I could not imagine anyone being dead.

He was also being consciously practical.

I listened to him being awake, for a long time.

What she is going through is called being in labor.

“Imagine being buried on a day like this,” I said to John.

As long as he preceded the burlesque show as advance man he was being paid.

On the train from Padua to Milan they quarreled about her not being willing to come home at once.

“Although I don’t know how, me not being a plumber, they expected me to steal anything,” Guy said.

He didn’t like being away from his wife and the kids, and he was sore and grouchy most of the time.

He could not lie as quietly as I could because, perhaps, he had not had as much practice being awake.

Again there was the shock and he felt himself being borne back in a rush, to strike hard on the sand.

I had been wounded, it was true; but we all knew that being wounded, after all, was really an accident.

Some nights too I made up streams, and some of them were very exciting, and it was like being awake and dreaming.

He was being led around the paddocks with his head down and when he went by me I felt all hollow inside he was so beautiful.

But instead of him running the fight it was Walcott was running it, instead of being safe all the time now he was in trouble.

He knew that this nausea would increase steadily, without there ever being the relief of sickness, until something were done against it.

Instead of being the warm centre of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe⁠—so I decided to go East and learn the bond business.

Precisely at that point it vanished⁠—and I was looking at an elegant young roughneck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd.

There was a certain inner comfort in knowing he could knock down anybody who was snooty to him, although, being very shy and a thoroughly nice boy, he never fought except in the gym.

He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton.

Many things that were not to be moved were burned in the backyard and I remember those jars from the attic being thrown in the fire, and how they popped in the heat and the fire flamed up from the alcohol.

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

She wasn’t able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body.

Although, as we walked to the Cova through the tough part of town, walking in the dark, with light and singing coming out of the wine-shops, and sometimes having to walk into the street when the men and women would crowd together on the sidewalk so that we would have had to jostle them to get by, we felt held together by there being something that had happened that they, the people who disliked us, did not understand.