Sentence examples for for being British from inspiring English sources

"You've got one for being British, too".

"They've decided to give me an award for being British," Izzard told Cleese, who laughed.

Britain's Dwain Chambers also gets a big cheer for being British.

I think people allow me a certain latitude for being British".

Twelve months later Emwazi was guarding western captives at a prison in Idlib, Syria – earning his place among Isis's "Beatles" prison jailers, named for being British.

Another man-made hill overlooking farmland at the edge of town bears a brand new stone inscription marking the visit in August of the Duke of Cambridge to St Symphorien Military Cemetery, one of the prettiest and least forbidding of military graveyards, where an elderly gent showing his grandson the grave of the first Victoria Cross recipient congratulated me for being British.

All we are asking for is British justice for a British citizen".

"For me, being British is just as important as being a Muslim.

For why is being British something to be proud of?

"Surely then, there is nothing against our coming, for we are British subjects.

"However, I wouldn't criticise it for being a British broadcaster and having a British outlook".