Example sentences of "was making " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now it stretched all the way down her back and Claire was making it shine like black oil . |
| 2 | Lucy looked very small and determined and was making a list . |
| 3 | A ripple of new arrivals was making the front row press forwards . |
| 4 | ’ Anxiety was making her touchy , unsure even of him . |
| 5 | More bangs from the rear of the house , the door through to the kitchen slammed back against the wall , the room filled with soldiers , and in the wrecked doorway a tall , slim officer was making a small ceremony of ushering in a man with long grey hair and a black coat . |
| 6 | One of them was making a basket ; another was drawing ; they were all doing something . |
| 7 | The old woman was making a clay animal ; the animal was a little like a lion , but it was not a lion . |
| 8 | When she joined them Rodney was making another announcement . |
| 9 | I was making 24 of these and needed a repetitive method . |
| 10 | At the time , it was making 3,500 hectolitres a year . |
| 11 | At the time , his brewery was making 20,000 hectolitres a year . |
| 12 | Blogg 's brewery was making ales in Roman Road , Barnsbury , in the East End of London around the turn of the century . |
| 13 | Long ago , in the heyday of Cambridge English , Richards was making a similar distinction between the ‘ critical ’ and the ‘ technical ’ : ‘ All remarks as to the ways and means by which experiences arise or are brought about are technical , but critical remarks are about the values of experiences and the reasons for regarding them as valuable , or not valuable . ’ |
| 14 | Already in 1915 Pound was making this mistake about the rivers , for in ‘ Near Perigord ’ , which he published in that year , he declares : |
| 15 | Soderstrom — who later in the concert jokingly apologised for her scratchiness — was obviously miserable , more miserable than she needed to be , about the quality of the sound she was making , and her misery took the form of distinguished concentration on pitch , so that there were many small uncharacteristic faults in her intonation . |
| 16 | Insp Peter Clarke told the jury that he drove past Mrs Wilks , who was pregnant , after he saw the man pull on to the hard shoulder , towards a telephone box where she was making an SOS call to police headquarters . |
| 17 | SUZANNE OTTERSON , the 15-year-old Scottish junior champion who was making her senior debut , gave a flowing performance to finish fourth in the short programme and move up to fifth place overall with the free skating to come . |
| 18 | The air hostesses inquired what I was making and a man passing in the aisle quite genuinely complimented me on my work . ’ |
| 19 | Glover was making his way back from the start , where he had coaxed the temperamental Rambo 's Hall into his stall , and his swelling excitement as he listened to a radio commentary was confined in a swaying Land Rover . |
| 20 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 21 | Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder , RAF commander in Egypt , wrote that ‘ the cloven hoof of Pan American [ is ] now well to the fore ’ , and called BOAC 's attitude ‘ hopelessly defeatist ’ , Pan American was making inroads in Africa and the Middle East that BOAC might never be able to match . |
| 22 | finally , a new political awareness was making Colonial populations more than ever critical of their relationship with the metropolis , Britain , for the first time in her modern Imperial history , was literally unable to deliver the goods . |
| 23 | The dragon 's internal boiler was situated very near to its stomach , and since he was making tremendous efforts to cool down , there were also terrifying hissing and grinding sounds . |
| 24 | And suddenly it could be a story , a funny story that was making Hermione laugh . |
| 25 | In 1985 Westland was making losses of £95m on a turnover of £308m and its future looked bleak . |
| 26 | Everybody 's shop was making a lot of money and we just could n't bear the thought of us all getting like the rest of the industry . |
| 27 | His disappointment at missing out added to the way the illness was making him feel . |
| 28 | He was making fun of me I know . |
| 29 | Across the floor from Audi , Ford was making much ado of its standard anti-lock brakes on all cars sold in Switzerland , a policy Ford says is being evaluated for the UK . |
| 30 | The Mercedes and Bentley may have been the show stars ; elsewhere , though , son of beach buggy was making a comeback . |