Example sentences of "was make a statement " in BNC.

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1 In my rejection of the image I saw I was making a statement , the apparent text of which read , ‘ I do n't want to look like ( be ) that . ’
2 He was making a statement that was demeaning to her , and yet her flesh burned , familiar fire stabbed at her loins and her body stirred against his , jerkily at first and then involuntarily adopting a rhythm that was both sinuous and surging , blatantly erotic .
3 It was just that she was making a statement herself in dressing up .
4 Humphrey Atkins , who was in effect deputy Foreign Secretary and the chief Foreign Office spokesman in the Commons , was to make a statement at 11 a.m .
5 What he did not know until late on was that his former Chancellor was to make a statement on his resignation .
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