Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] make [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Puzzle number two is that other changes in financial markets were meanwhile making it easier for such principles to apply . |
| 2 | An hour or so spent talking with other women about how weak , cruel , uncaring , lazy and insensitive their husbands were always made her tired . |
| 3 | Yet as early as this blacks were also making their own films : ‘ race films ’ , shown in all-black theatres during the years of segregation . |
| 4 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 5 | If they dipped into that , they were knowingly making themselves insolvent . |
| 6 | ‘ I was nervous and I was not making my first serves . |
| 7 | I doubt if anyone at the Cheshire Cheese would remember me — I was deliberately making myself inconspicuous … |
| 8 | Little by little she was deliberately making herself angry . |
| 9 | And was still making his woolly still are , specialist . |
| 10 | He served on a number of local commissions , but seems to have failed to secure inclusion in the commission of the peace until the accession of Elizabeth I , when he was also made her first sheriff of Surrey and Sussex . |
| 11 | She became the wife of James Baker , a saddler in the town who was also making his professional services available to the Frome Volunteers . |
| 12 | Colin Montgomerie , a British Ryder Cup player last year , who was also making his first appearance , had a 72 but David Feherty , who played steadily for 12 holes , ran up a seven at the 13th and had to settle for a 73 . |
| 13 | This stuff about him and Eva was really making me uncomfortable . |
| 14 | And it was this same movement that was now making it difficult for the distant beetles to get back to the professor . |
| 15 | She was even making her own clothes which she often paraded at public appearances in Britain and Australia . |
| 16 | Jenna was a bit surprised that Alain knew this man and the fact that he knew him was n't making him any more gracious , either . |
| 17 | Topaz was trying to pretend that this man was n't making her weak at the knees . |
| 18 | And if she was n't making her own clothes , she was determined to back her country folk and wear designer gear from Down Under , not previously known as a stronghold in fashion terms . |
| 19 | She was n't making it easy for him to rescue her . |
| 20 | Elisa was about to make her second attempt to leave when a bell was heard — the front-door bell . |
| 21 | Barry Lloyd was about to make his fourth court appearance next week . |
| 22 | In the midst of this unrelenting wave of depression , I found myself , dressed in a borrowed dinner jacket , on the M11 headed for Cambridge , where I was about to make my first ( and last ) appearance as an after-dinner speaker . |