Example sentences of "was making [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , but she denied it , and then she said she did n't know why he was making such a fuss because it was n't his child anyway . |
| 2 | Even when the famous Evangeline , who was elected first woman General of the Salvation Army in 1934 , visited Australia when Eva was six or seven Eva failed to appreciate why everyone was making such a fuss . |
| 3 | Harry felt a glow of pleasure — not least because his darling Alice was making such an obvious success of her career . |
| 4 | Some thought that he had been paid to attack the Visigoths by Gaiseric , king of the Vandals , who were now settled in North Africa ; others that he was making good a claim to be the husband of princess Honoria , daughter of Valentinian III , or that he was intervening in a dispute over the succession to the kingship of the Franks . |
| 5 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 6 | The paper 's usual film reporter would write the story from Miranda 's notes ; he 'd already attended several days ' shooting of the new , as yet untitled film , the first Meursault to be made in Britain , which was a supreme sign that the decade was making all the difference to the world 's view of the country , and its relation to the avant-garde . |
| 7 | The flight engineer , who had been at Halton as all apprentice with me and had left and later returned to the Air Force , complained bitterly as I was making all the preparations for take-off , but I ignored him . |
| 8 | Bukharin was making clear the distinction between the period when means of production were gathered into the hands of certain groups , who then used them as capital and thereby began the process of the accumulation of capital , and reproduction o f capitalist relations of production . |