Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was make [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked suddenly suspicious that I was making fun of him , which I was n't , and grabbed me to look down the front of my dress . |
| 2 | In order to keep an erection long enough to fake orgasm , I had to imagine that I was making love to Karen . |
| 3 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 4 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 5 | She stiffened , suspecting that he was making fun of her . |
| 6 | De Gaulle was able to be flexible in meeting the demands for democratic participation because he could feel that he was making concessions on his own terms . |
| 7 | She could even forgive him the talk about having her committed , now that that possibility was safely in the past and she was making progress on her own . |
| 8 | And he was made chairman of the Railway executive . |
| 9 | His effectiveness in this , his finest hour , was admired as his arrogance and conflict of interest were deplored , and he was made governor of the new colony of British Columbia on condition he leave the company . |
| 10 | Yes , really you know , because , then I , then I looked at , on the other side they er were full of cows and and he would make it that was alright , but he was making sort of very little . |
| 11 | Sometimes I used to practise shooting in the garden while she was making bread in the kitchen . |
| 12 | Oh , God , his girlfriend had actually been in the house while he was making love to her . |
| 13 | In 1976 in London while he was making Shout at the Devil , he told me , ‘ I 've been burning myself out . |
| 14 | Not that Melissa cared two hoots whether it was making money for Bonard or not — whatever Iris might claim , he was certainly not strapped for cash — but it was essential for Iris 's self-esteem that it should go well . |
| 15 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |
| 16 | Well I think I had more problems when I was making films as a pop singer , because I was still pop singing as well and it was difficult to disassociate the two . |
| 17 | Dustin never forgot the importance of Henry Livings 's play in his career , and many years later , when he was making Agatha in England , he sought the modest playwright out and took him to lunch at a smart restaurant . |