Example sentences of "be [pron] make [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I making you nervous ? |
| 2 | Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ? |
| 3 | Then Sophie had added : ‘ It is she makes it beautiful , no ? ’ begging Teodor to agree at once . |
| 4 | Right that 's it makes it milky . |
| 5 | I reckon that 's what made me ill , it 's your fault . |
| 6 | ( It was also , of course , disgusting and deplorable : that 's what made it such a success . ) |
| 7 | Your mother presumably , who forced you to do that , was happier than you were about it happening , and that 's what made you sad . |
| 8 | That 's what you call a grounding , and it 's what makes him confident if he does get to meet Big Ron at Villa Park next season . |
| 9 | More than anything , it 's what makes him unique : this ability to combine a hoarse moral anger at the way the world is turning with the basic confusion shared by us all . |
| 10 | and that 's what makes me evil , that 's why I say I 'd moved heaven and earth for someone who 's nice |
| 11 | That 's what makes me sick : you laughing and chatting with Stok while our boy was sitting there petrified . ’ |
| 12 | That 's what makes it worse . |
| 13 | And it stretches all the tissue on this inside , and that 's what makes it sore . |
| 14 | Part of my job as a media commentator is to slag off other journalists — it 's what makes it all worthwhile — and I 've put knees into the groins of such eminences as Alastair Burnet , Peter Sissons and Donald Trelford , without so much as a raised eyebrow in Kingsland or City roads . |
| 15 | ‘ Absolutely , warts and all ; that 's what makes it good fun . |
| 16 | The point for Kojak will not be the relevance of the information , nor the nature of it , but merely that he has it and others do n't — that 's what makes it valuable and Kojak a computer stud . |
| 17 | Every day is different , that 's what makes it interesting . |
| 18 | See we 're that 's what makes us well that 's what makes us seventy two now . |
| 19 | That 's what makes us significant , three very different kinds of people able to work together in a band . ’ |
| 20 | This is what made them anxious about the attitudes of powerful men in their societies — rulers , great magnates — towards the churches of which they considered themselves the lords . |
| 21 | This is what made them 'special " . |
| 22 | It is what makes him such a refreshing literary historian . |
| 23 | The pretence that this is not so is what makes me sick , he wrote , when I look at the works of the past . |
| 24 | The fact that coins are monetary objects issued by various authorities is what makes them such a valuable source of information for the historian . |
| 25 | ‘ That is what makes them different from other student movements , since they work with the oppressed and underprivileged , making them more aware of their role and situation in society and helping them to realise the need to organise themselves and to start doing the work by themselves . ’ |
| 26 | It is what makes us different from the commercial banks . |
| 27 | This , I think is what makes it possible for this story to have a positive if not a ‘ sunset ’ ending . |
| 28 | The response is out of all proportion to the stimulus , and this is what makes it special , distinguishing it from occasions where a cat merely withdraws after being scolded . |
| 29 | We do n't know what 's going to happen next — which is what makes it dramatic . |
| 30 | But maybe that was what made them different from him . |