Example sentences of "[v-ing] and make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why was it the gorgeous ones passed through so fleetingly while others , like that paunchy , moist-palmed Vic Tatum from Marine Claims always managed to delay in her office , ogling , leering and making suggestive remarks that she could probably take to a Sexual Harassment Tribunal if she had a mind to ! |
| 2 | The only drawback to the course was the way my calves refused to move first thing in the morning ; the pluses ? — meeting and making new friends and returning home refreshed and energised in mind and body . |
| 3 | For four days he seemed barely alive , but on the fifth he sat up and opened his eyes , ‘ seeing a vast procession with people singing and making all kinds of commotion ’ . |
| 4 | Someone on a boat out there was having a party , people singing and making more noise than the music they were playing . |
| 5 | ‘ And I thought I could make mine by designing and making better products , and selling them to the world , ’ said Mark . |
| 6 | Often she would also spend hours designing and making new clothes for herself and sometimes for Dannii and friends . |
| 7 | In the workshop , theory and practice are more easily linked by displaying and making available material and practical work , side by side , each depending upon the other for full understanding . |
| 8 | By listening , considering and making appropriate changes when others in the Fellowship give feed-back . |
| 9 | I mean if you take the regulatory we did it with today that it consists of the Bank of England , the Securities and Investment Board , twenty four organisations of the S I B S , siblings you might call them er under it , the Building Societies Commission , the police , the serious fraud office , the Department of Trade and Industry , the London Stock Exchange , the Inland Revenue , five recognised supervisory bodies , all those dealing with er auditors and the others , it 's chaos er and nobody knows who is responsible for what and in that chaos you get overlapping decisions er er and conflicting regulations , everybody tries to ensure themselves by regulating too much er er and it 's a situation which drastically needs simplification , but we do n't have any proposals for strengthening and making that work er er frame work more effective , to back up er this er simple proposal today . |
| 10 | I bear this in mind for my next visit and reflect that I am already learning and making mental notes about this hitherto unfished — by me at any rate — stretch of river . |
| 11 | B. Some great industrialists and business people in Sheffield in the last century developed special skills in steel making and made huge profits which provided the capital for larger works . |
| 12 | A tube of Zovirax , which you can get from your doctor or dentist stops the virus dividing and makes each attack less painful until they die out . |
| 13 | It was difficult to control the class after that , what with them jeering and making masturbatory gestures . |
| 14 | development of speaking and listening skills , both when role-playing and otherwise — when describing experiences , expressing opinions , articulating personal feelings and formulating and making appropriate responses to increasingly complex instructions and questions ; |
| 15 | Moreover , he was chuckling and making humorous observations to Fleury in Hindustani , his eyes gleaming as black as anthracite , pointing at his neck occasionally and shaking his head , as if over an unusually successful jest . |