Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] making the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the first one , I was making the record and I broke a string on my Firebird and could n't be bothered changing strings , and so I plugged the Lazer in and it sounded so good that I kept using it . |
| 2 | Life became so stressful that when I was making The Power Game the doctor put me on Mogadon and I became hooked for a while . |
| 3 | Er cos I I would n't have in I When I was making the the analysis I w was n't including Hereford and Worcester and I was n't |
| 4 | I was making the point that if we judge concern for safety by the money spent on it , then by any measurement or definition , it is a sad indictment of the official concern expressed in the 1980s . |
| 5 | I was making the most of this opportunity . |
| 6 | I thought I was making the best of both answers |
| 7 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 8 | Few could resist pressures which were making the waging of war , never cheap , more expensive than ever before . |
| 9 | He spent a great deal of time in the yard below with the carpenters and masons who were making the pageant cart for the coronation procession . |
| 10 | If you were making the choice , would you prefer allocation ( d ) to allocation ( e ) ? |
| 11 | You were n't doing anything individual it was more communion thing you were making the likes of if it was brown bread you 're all standing rolling up and chaffing brown bread and putting them in tins . |
| 12 | That was why she was making the grade as a jockey . |
| 13 | While she was making the coffee , boiling her kettle , he glanced across at her Herald Tribune . |
| 14 | She was making the excuses to Vernon , not O'Hara . |
| 15 | When she reappeared , her bald head gleaming dully , her arms were extended and she was making the mooing noise again . |
| 16 | At first he thought the rope itself was making the sound . |
| 17 | I could not in the court of law swear that you had been under my observations the whole time we were making the ascent . ’ |
| 18 | When we were making the recording I have to say it made me feel completely happy ; it is a piece which has such perfection of form . |
| 19 | This is why I was so concerned when we were making the new set of the Beethoven symphonies in 1977 . |
| 20 | ‘ It did n't seem good when we were making the test . |
| 21 | I took him around the garden and told him simply , in the hope that it would feed through to the Romanian government , that we were making the most enormous efforts to try to break this COCOM problem . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know why we were making the damn thing — everybody was acting like it was a pain in the ass . |
| 23 | Slate we wanted to produce we want , you know if there a lot a bit of waste going over the tip , we were n't so much worried bout the waste , cos we was on the bonus we were making the slates and that . |
| 24 | One point I 'd just like to add to what David was just saying there was that when you were talking about those orientation problems , when we were making the film of the children at Brickwall , what was brought home to me very strongly was that these sort of problems can arise in mathematics , as well as in reading . |
| 25 | They were making the big double bed . |
| 26 | The facts behind this bizarre legal suit are hard to untangle : Sean did or did n't have an affair with Woods , now 44 , while they were making The Boost . |
| 27 | We then went a stage further and to share the technology established joint teams for each of these major areas , so that er the specification while it was under Dasa 's leadership , it was actually done by a joint team which involved expertise from British Aerospace and the other three and er therefore at that time the whole Eurofighter consortium was confident that they were making the best use of the available expertise across the four partner companies , each bringing to the table , their own so that they could go forward on a confident basis . |
| 28 | things that happened to them while they were making the African Queen and , they 've turned into a story . |
| 29 | They dug it up when they was making the trench for the pipes to the new vehicle examination extension . |
| 30 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc . |