Example sentences of "making us [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're making us redundant . ’ |
| 2 | Making us all brothers and sisters and children again with God . |
| 3 | First , though , give him the benefit of a voluntary defence , possibly against Alex Stewart , and then let him get on with making us all feel good about finally having another British world heavyweight champion . |
| 4 | " You are making us all sick , " he said . |
| 5 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 6 | It also gained The Queen 's Award for Export Achievement , making us one of only three winners of Queen 's Awards in two categories in 1993 . |
| 7 | We now serve 70,000 school meals daily , making us one of the largest providers of educational catering in the country . |
| 8 | But the short term , he is not making us rich is he ? |
| 9 | Is it any wonder Solaris 2.0-on-Intel is late or is the summer heat just making us cranky ? |
| 10 | Modern dietary trends are making us healthier in many respects and yet , as we move away from calcium-rich foods like milk , cream and cheese , a valuable source of calcium is being lost . |
| 11 | Goodnight says Steve Jobs had promised him that the NeXT boxes would sell in serious numbers , but now admits that that particular offering ‘ is n't making us any money . ’ |
| 12 | These people were supposed to be making us fit and instead they were doing irreparable damage to my heart and lungs . |
| 13 | ‘ Once , we made a recording of John and hid it behind the radio while his mum was making us some tea , ’ he chuckled . |
| 14 | Having a baby would have taken us off the front pages , making us safe and dull again . |
| 15 | The kind of society we live in — broadly the industrial capitalism which is being embraced by more and more of the world — is making us prone to the alienation and isolation on which madness feeds . |
| 16 | A smoothly manipulative svengali- ish figure when it comes to business , he gives the ‘ Karl treatment ’ to new models and muses , as well as to fashion labels , making us aware of the possibilities only he has seen beneath the exterior . |
| 17 | In [ 12 ] , the adverbial with a click is placed before the rest of the sentence , perversely making us aware of the " click " before the " shutting " which caused it ( see 7.7.1 ) . |
| 18 | The rejoinder must be : although we may generally have neither the time nor the inclination to look at literary language under the microscope in this way , the fact that it can be done is important , and the doing of it can not fail to sharpen observation , by making us aware of how larger effects are built up from smaller ones . |
| 19 | making us double in a world |