Example sentences of "[am/are] make [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If and when you are made a firm offer of a place , you will be asked to confirm the details of the funds available to you . |
2 | When mistakes are made a full apology is often less damaging than a grudging admission that events have not gone as planned . |
3 | They 're , yes , they 're , they 're making a present value of |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ You 're making a right fool of yourself , are n't you ? ’ |
6 | ‘ You 're making a terrible mistake — ’ |
7 | I believe you 're making a terrible mistake . ’ |
8 | Jordan said , ‘ To tell you the truth , I do n't think we 're making a good job of it . ’ |
9 | Well , they 're making a new one . |
10 | they 're making a new diary and they want the new words on it |
11 | They 're making a new dictionary and they want the new words on it |
12 | Cos they 're making a new dia , dictionary and they want some new words |
13 | So they 're making a new dictionary ? |
14 | ‘ You 're making a nice job of massacring those burgers , ’ her companion yelled at her man . |
15 | But on the other hand they 're making a little bit at a pound a pint . |
16 | I think you 're making a valid point here . |
17 | ‘ You 're making a fucking big mistake , ’ said the second man , his teeth clenched in anger . |
18 | ‘ Because you 're making a fuck-awful job of it . ’ |
19 | 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 |
20 | 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 . |
21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
22 | ‘ You 're making a big mistake , Sir , ’ he said . |
23 | Yeah , well they 're making a big deal out of it are n't they ? |
24 | 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 |
25 | You 're making an absolute fool of yourself . ’ |
26 | If John Major and Kenneth Clarke think that they can ignore the anger and the distress of millions of pensioners , they 're making an enormous mistake . |
27 | ‘ I 'm afraid you 're making an illegitimate leap from fact to value . |
28 | ‘ Ah , but you see , you 're making the same mistake again ! ’ |
29 | Now the point I 'm trying to make — the reason I sent you to that 2D universe — is that I reckon we 're making the same mistake — about the space of our universe . |
30 | ‘ I 'm making a fresh pot of coffee … ’ |