Example sentences of "be making a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're , yes , they 're , they 're making a present value of |
| 2 | Yeah I do n't think they 're doing a great er I do n't think they 're making a great deal of money out of it themselves . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're making a right fool of yourself , are n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 're making a terrible mistake — ’ |
| 5 | I believe you 're making a terrible mistake . ’ |
| 6 | Jordan said , ‘ To tell you the truth , I do n't think we 're making a good job of it . ’ |
| 7 | Well , they 're making a new one . |
| 8 | they 're making a new diary and they want the new words on it |
| 9 | They 're making a new dictionary and they want the new words on it |
| 10 | Cos they 're making a new dia , dictionary and they want some new words |
| 11 | So they 're making a new dictionary ? |
| 12 | ‘ You 're making a nice job of massacring those burgers , ’ her companion yelled at her man . |
| 13 | But on the other hand they 're making a little bit at a pound a pint . |
| 14 | I think you 're making a valid point here . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're making a fucking big mistake , ’ said the second man , his teeth clenched in anger . |
| 16 | ‘ Because you 're making a fuck-awful job of it . ’ |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Great that we 're making a few bob at last ; I 've bunged down a few more ideas for old Clash songs we could flog to various fee-paying customers . |
| 19 | ‘ We both know the gentleman concerned and we 're not very happy about the way things are going so we 're making a few enquiries of our own . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You 're making a big mistake , Sir , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Yeah , well they 're making a big deal out of it are n't they ? |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | I feel that if I am not with her I will be making a great mistake , missing a real opportunity . |
| 24 | Mr Paul might be making a great deal of money and becoming famous , and she 'd heard they had asked him to accept an honorary doctorate , whatever good that might do . |
| 25 | Although I listened with interest to the case adduced by the hon. Member for Honiton ( Sir P. Emery ) , the Chairman of the Procedure Committee which has made the recommendations , I still believe that the House would be making a great mistake to accept the motion , for it would add to the automatic nature , as it were , of debates and would play into the hands of the Government of the day , thereby strengthening their position over that of the House . |
| 26 | Bush stressed that he would not be making a final decision until he had heard the reports from Cheney and Powell . |
| 27 | The Communist Party , he told Mr Gysi , would be making a serious error if he went ahead and fought the planned May elections on a manifesto which simply warned reunification would be a victory for the right . |
| 28 | Sir Geraint was thought to be making a good recovery in hospital after suffering a minor heart attack at his home near Aberystwyth . |
| 29 | If anyone claims to be making a factual statement , then they ought to be able to state what observations would be relevant to determining the truth or falsity of that statement . |
| 30 | You will be making a personal and lasting contribution to the ORT work I have told you about . |