Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was make [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
7 | And he was made chairman of the Railway executive . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Sometimes I used to practise shooting in the garden while she was making bread in the kitchen . |
11 | Oh , God , his girlfriend had actually been in the house while he was making love to her . |
12 | In 1976 in London while he was making Shout at the Devil , he told me , ‘ I 've been burning myself out . |
13 | 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 . |