Example sentences of "[vb past] making [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ . |
| 2 | It stopped making low-density polyethylene , a basic petro-chemical characterised by massive international over-capacity , a decade ago . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it 's high time you stopped making snap judgements , Mr Bryce , especially as the conclusions you leap to are invariably the wrong ones . ’ |
| 4 | It was held that , although refusal to grant licences did not amount to an abuse as such , it could so do if refusal was arbitrary or if prices were fixed at unfair levels or if the right owner stopped making spare parts . |
| 5 | The cause of children 's bookselling can only be advanced by everyone involved making worthwhile sums of money which justify the resources allocated . |
| 6 | ‘ I hated making that film . |
| 7 | The other development officer predicted making considerable use of volunteers as well as paid carers : ‘ it may be that we have two types of carer , an informal unpaid visiting service , and then the regular paid carers ’ . |
| 8 | that is how it seemed earlier this week , as people began making educated guesses about the outcome of the weekend 's referendum . |
| 9 | The squirrel was sleeping when she entered , but he woke instantly and began making agitated noises , obviously indignant at his captivity . |
| 10 | Mitchell bought it for $250 , and began making regular acquisitions of ancient American gold through dealers , auctions , and private collectors in New York , Zurich and London . |
| 11 | He immediately began making anonymous donations to charity — but stayed as an agent with Kleeneze . |
| 12 | The famous Axminster carpet factory , begun in 1755 , still stands in Silver Street — a stone building by the parish church , where Thomas Whitty , a cloth weaver , began making hand-knotted wool carpets in imitation of Turkish patterns . |
| 13 | Eventually , in the middle of the afternoon , Golding arrived with his superior , Detective Superintendent Miller , and a squad of technicians , who began making intricate modifications to the telephone in order to monitor incoming calls . |
| 14 | Lady Grubb 's invitations to them were always by letter , and led to a file of correspondence because she enjoyed making microscopic changes of plan . |
| 15 | But I do n't re think they realize what they were doing when they started making that flower border round , it 's going to be a never ending job . |
| 16 | Shoppers started making moral choices — boycotting battery-farmed eggs , for example — or political ones , which affected sales of South African fruit . |
| 17 | But he was incensed ; he came alongside me and started making all sorts of threatening gestures . |
| 18 | She even started making other arrangements so she would n't just end up sitting at home staring at the phone and forcing herself not to ring him and say her plans had changed and she was free after all . |
| 19 | The company also started making silly mistakes . |
| 20 | When Italo started making big fish fingers in the chip shop he called them ‘ fingeronis ’ — giving them the Italian ending for ‘ big ’ . |
| 21 | It was you who started making veiled references to my love-life . |
| 22 | Last year Campbell Soup , one of the last to hold out , started making own-label goods — except soups . |
| 23 | So I started making some calls of my own . |
| 24 | I felt a lot of anger , but there was nothing I could do with it ; then it faded , until I started making some connections with feminism at the beginning of the seventies . |
| 25 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 26 | Of course , outputting them at 300dpi meant making some sacrifices so Adobe build in a mechanism for improving the shapes of the characters at low resolution , the technique is called hinting , and to protect their investment they encrypted both the typefaces and the hinting method so that the faces would only work properly with their own version of PostScript . |
| 27 | He kept making desperate swimming movements , feebly threshing the water trying to pull himself free . |
| 28 | The result was that we all kept making surreptitious trips to the staff room to refill our plastic beakers . |
| 29 | ‘ In the seven days we worked together , he kept making sexual advances , ’ she says . |
| 30 | A BOSS yesterday admitted making sexist remarks to his secretary for a laugh . |