Example sentences of "and making [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I went to that stress management course we were told to use physical resources like deep breathing and actually making yourself sit down and making yourself go floppy . |
| 2 | Instead his mouth pressed against the soft cotton , tracing the outline of her body and making her shudder . |
| 3 | Carrie felt as if she were falling through space ; falling and falling with the air pressing her chest and making her gasp . |
| 4 | After a few scotches , he told her he 'd buy a dishwasher , throwing in a string of fatuous clichés about her delicate hands , sparkling and making her laugh . |
| 5 | Instead she took the money from her mother and walked sedately down to the shops with Carla , playing with her and making her laugh . |
| 6 | His wife Aileen came in with pails of milk , scolding at two little girls for clinging onto her skirt and making her spill . |
| 7 | It was all right for the likes of May and Izzy , always shouting and laughing and making her cry . |
| 8 | On the first Saturday of the month Merrill 's telephone rang , shrilling through the morning silence and making her jump . |
| 9 | John 's face seemed to come alive and his spirit escaped the prison of the photograph releasing brief images of happy times ; John dancing along the pavement , John tilting his head back to exhale smoke from a cigarette , John talking to a cuddly toy in a supermarket and making me laugh . |
| 10 | She runs her hands up my legs to my buttocks again , sliding her fingers between my cheeks , touching my anus and making me go up on the balls of my feet , then her hand runs back down my legs . |
| 11 | She 's made me angry with her anger , and then turned it around so that I 'm eaten up with guilt because she 's been ill and I have n't noticed , and now she 's taking the blame on herself and making me feel worse than ever . |
| 12 | It felt like my stomach had decided to take a sabbatical ; all that food was just sitting there , unprocessed , locked in , slopping around and making me feel horrible . |
| 13 | This time in the hotels I particularly noticed how many people of different tongues were also staying there — all babbling away and making me wonder who they were and where they had come from . |
| 14 | She keeps giving me clothes — ; not this dear old awful thing , Mrs McPhee at home made this — and making me practise manners and the piano and I could n't tell her about last night , I could n't , I ca n't disappoint another person , not after my mother — ’ and Alexandra put her head down on to the slice of bread on her plate and burst into tears . |
| 15 | However , after haranguing us and making me mop up his uniform , the outraged policeman indicated a couple of wash-basins . |
| 16 | I 'd start by shooting a few people I know and making them stop digging holes in the road . ’ |
| 17 | Across the meadows he could see the flats of the council estate , the sun striking their plate-glass windows and making them blaze as if the whole place was on fire . |
| 18 | There is sometimes a fine line between encouraging residents to take part in an activity and making them do something they really do not want to do . |
| 19 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 20 | Push the pictured tiles around the playing area , matching like with like and making them disappear — when two similar designs are placed adjacent to each other , they 're destroyed . |
| 21 | Right , now , instead of getting rid of them two and making them go back to Mars Bars , then back . |
| 22 | The tabloid press will publish stories of dole scroungers laying in bed all day , living the life of Riley on the dole , blaming the unemployed and making them feel guilty for a desperate plight . |
| 23 | Among the points she made were the need for care of children , the importance of supporting the NCH , which was doing such a wonderful job for children in need ; and the necessity of seeking out the fathers who abandon their children and making them pay maintenance . |
| 24 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 25 | You concentrate on interpreting my ideas , putting them onto paper and making them work . ’ |
| 26 | One of the messages from the Bill may be that bringing in those schemes and making them work is one way in which the engineers can show that they have as much to contribute in cutting the number of casualties as those who deal with the behavioural side of driving and those who build the bypasses that take traffic away from towns and villages . |
| 27 | And you can then also couple between keyboards so that if you want to you can play the sounds from this keyboard on the lower one by coupling the two together and making them work as a pair , but that removes the inde independency of being able to set one against the other . |
| 28 | This is again due to arterial spasm and deoxygenated ( blue blood ) pooling in the veins and making them take on this abnormal hue . |
| 29 | Flimsy metal rails and plastic counters jar with the handsome Neo-classical forms of the galleries ; large panels have been built in the entrance of the three main galleries , blocking the views and making them look smaller , and because space is at a premium , the paintings are sometimes crowded together . |
| 30 | In many ways I would prefer to live in one place , but taking old and derelict houses and making them relive again is a source of enjoyment to me . |