Example sentences of "you [be] making a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten minutes before the end of the cooking time , open the foil covering the chicken to allow the skin to brown , while you are making a small quantity of ( packet ) bread sauce in a small saucepan , and heating the tinned peas in another . |
| 2 | I guess everyone said it is 95 per cent curable ; the treatment is good ; you are making a good recovery . |
| 3 | ‘ When you both feel light-hearted enough to enjoy your baby , you are making a good start ’ says Infant Care on its second page , and Spock uses the same injunction , ‘ Enjoy Your Baby ’ , as a subheading in his chapter ‘ The Right Start ’ . |
| 4 | SERAFIN : You sound as if you are making a cautious discovery about your feelings for the first time . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're making a right fool of yourself , are n't you ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 're making a nice job of massacring those burgers , ’ her companion yelled at her man . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're making a terrible mistake — ’ |
| 8 | I believe you 're making a terrible mistake . ’ |
| 9 | No you do n't want that , oh you 're making a lovely train here well we 're going to stay at a hotel on the nineteenth this Sunday |
| 10 | ‘ Because you 're making a fuck-awful job of it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 're making a big mistake , Sir , ’ he said . |
| 12 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 13 | I think you 're making a valid point here . |
| 14 | You were making a good point there . |
| 15 | ‘ I told you you were making a big mistake . ’ |
| 16 | Where once you were making a conscious effort to cast long and accurately and were aware of the amount of punch you needed to put into the strike , you will find that with experience you begin to do these things quite naturally . |