Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] making a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I have been invited to come back to South Africa by friends both black and white , I wonder whether I am making a great mistake . |
| 2 | I tell them I am making a good living , that I can support a child , that I want a baby more than anything , but they refuse . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well , yes , I must admit , ’ replies management , ‘ that I am making a good thing out of this , the best break we have had for years — you see , my methods of production are so cheap and efficient . ’ |
| 4 | But I am making a different point . |
| 5 | All the available funds should be targeted in that way to ensure that we achieve the best social return on the available resources — If Conservative Members think that I am making a partisan point , I invite the Secretary of State for the Environment to move beyond the Municipal Journal . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm making a fresh pot of coffee … ’ |
| 7 | Another important development is the Child Care Open Learning Project , part of the Gatsby Project , which has led to the availability of the Open University Courses ‘ Caring for Children and Young People ’ ( P653 ) and ‘ Working with Children and Young People ’ ( K254 ) both of which are making a wide range of knowledge and research available to many practitioners and others . |
| 8 | The hospital visits Bishop Auckland , Newton Aycliffe , Shildon and Crook , where trained staff deal with scores of mental patients who are making a new life for themselves in the community . |
| 9 | Ten minutes before the end of the cooking time , open the foil covering the chicken to allow the skin to brown , while you are making a small quantity of ( packet ) bread sauce in a small saucepan , and heating the tinned peas in another . |
| 10 | I guess everyone said it is 95 per cent curable ; the treatment is good ; you are making a good recovery . |
| 11 | ‘ When you both feel light-hearted enough to enjoy your baby , you are making a good start ’ says Infant Care on its second page , and Spock uses the same injunction , ‘ Enjoy Your Baby ’ , as a subheading in his chapter ‘ The Right Start ’ . |
| 12 | SERAFIN : You sound as if you are making a cautious discovery about your feelings for the first time . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're making a right fool of yourself , are n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 're making a nice job of massacring those burgers , ’ her companion yelled at her man . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're making a terrible mistake — ’ |
| 16 | I believe you 're making a terrible mistake . ’ |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | ‘ Because you 're making a fuck-awful job of it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You 're making a big mistake , Sir , ’ he said . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | I think you 're making a valid point here . |
| 22 | In this Olympic year we are making a major commitment to athletics . ’ |
| 23 | We are making a significant investment to establish a major Wimpol presence throughout South East Asia . |
| 24 | ‘ We are making a big effort to repair more cars on the roadside . |
| 25 | Jordan said , ‘ To tell you the truth , I do n't think we 're making a good job of it . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | According to Simon Lyster of the World Wide Fund for Nature : " They are making a serious point . |
| 29 | They want to feel that they are making a reasonable living , though they would n't be teachers if they wanted to be rich . |
| 30 | Consequently , they believe that domestic services are a good thing and a necessary part of everyday life and that by encouraging the growth of urban centres they are making a positive contribution to ‘ community life ’ . |