Example sentences of "i was make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was made a bit of a snob . |
| 2 | I sometimes forget that it is the day of the year when I was made a bishop . |
| 3 | ‘ I was made a guinea pig , ’ he says , ‘ and being a guinea pig can hurt like hell . ’ |
| 4 | I never fail to remember on the day of the year when I was made a priest . |
| 5 | At that time , I was making a TV series with an old friend of mine . |
| 6 | I was making a presentation to the management of a well known UK manufacturing company . |
| 7 | The sickening that I was making a mess of the first real pitch of the first real pitch of IV± , and that I 'd have to take my sack off if I was going to stay on , swept over me . |
| 8 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 9 | ‘ I was making a point about my morals , ’ she said primly . |
| 10 | I was making a sort of comparison . ’ |
| 11 | A few people thought I was making a living in something other than fashion , if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 12 | He wanted to close the church so I made myself known , claiming I was making a pilgrimage in atonement for my sins . |
| 13 | If I was making a career of this I guess I 'd resent Dixie coming with me . |
| 14 | I I think erm a a as you 've kindly called me er I think I will try and make this debate a little more lively erm but I 'm not sure about being controversial er because here I was last week , I was making a speech about the significance of er the deregulation of contracting out bill and er I said then that the bill is so important because it is the first major attempt by government to slay the red tape dragon . |
| 15 | ‘ I told him I was making a citizen 's arrest . |
| 16 | In my rejection of the image I saw I was making a statement , the apparent text of which read , ‘ I do n't want to look like ( be ) that . ’ |
| 17 | I said well you see I was making a time machine and all I needed was one more microchip and what was sitting right up under my nose ? |
| 18 | I first noticed its behaviour ( independently ! ) in 1936 , when I was making an estimate of the brightness of Shedir , and found that Gamma had brightened appreciably from its catalogue magnitude of 2.2 . |
| 19 | And I would n't be thinking that I was making an investment , if you understand me . ’ |