Example sentences of "and make [adj] remark " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wants sex , she wants to look around the place and make condescending remarks . |
| 2 | As infants they cry or scream , as toddlers they whine or have tantrums , as older children or teenagers they learn to quarrel , argue , sulk and make hurtful remarks . |
| 3 | Now — are we going to get on with planning this party , or are you just going to sit there and make stupid remarks ? ’ |
| 4 | Sometimes I will have abandoned a painting , got really tired of it and feel it 's not getting anywhere , and you will come and make some remark that makes me look at it again and think : oh yes , I could just pull that one together . |
| 5 | I fumed and bittered away while my mother finished her coffee and made concerned remarks about how thin and pale I was looking . |
| 6 | She 'd bought some fancy underwear and was showing it to Franca and I came in and made some remarks . |
| 7 | Doone looked in briefly and made some remark about returning with assistance . |
| 8 | A man in a suit came up beside her and made some remark which caused Jane to throw her head back and cackle . |
| 9 | With an effort she looked away and made some remark to one of the schoolteachers and became consciously absorbed in the conversation which followed . |
| 10 | But a man who makes his living playing black music suddenly sporting the flag waved on every Nazi march AND toying with skin imagery ( and like or not , lads , the crop and boots HAVE been adopted by Nazis in the USA and Europe ) AND writing ambiguous lyrics about an issue which brooks no ambiguity AND making idiotic remarks about blacks and black music in interviews AND hankering ( in a curiously middle aged manner à la Gary Numan ) after a nice , homogenous ‘ England ’ that never actually existed AND refusing to defend or explain himself — ALL that means , at the very least , that he 's got a case to answer , surely ? |
| 11 | Carrying tales and making nasty remarks . |
| 12 | Members of the resident stage crew wandered round , looking at their watches and making dark remarks about amateurism and provincial rep. and the folly of trying to bring in a show so quickly and the unlikelihood of its being presentable in time for the Monday night preview . |
| 13 | By being stubbornly obstructive and making snappy remarks . |
| 14 | and making fond remarks . |
| 15 | Why was it the gorgeous ones passed through so fleetingly while others , like that paunchy , moist-palmed Vic Tatum from Marine Claims always managed to delay in her office , ogling , leering and making suggestive remarks that she could probably take to a Sexual Harassment Tribunal if she had a mind to ! |