Example sentences of "was make [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder , RAF commander in Egypt , wrote that ‘ the cloven hoof of Pan American [ is ] now well to the fore ’ , and called BOAC 's attitude ‘ hopelessly defeatist ’ , Pan American was making inroads in Africa and the Middle East that BOAC might never be able to match . |
| 2 | We were dismayed to learn that the new editor was making decisions without access to the full file on our paper . |
| 3 | Blogg 's brewery was making ales in Roman Road , Barnsbury , in the East End of London around the turn of the century . |
| 4 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |
| 5 | Edward Gould made 12/ for cutting three acres of grass for the mine horses , and in another period was making water-races at Paddy End , constructing 242 yards at 3d. per yard . |
| 6 | While in Judaea the compiler of the Book of Daniel was adapting to the situation the old image of the Fourth Kingdom , part iron and part clay ( D. Flusser , Israel Oriental Studies 2 ( 1972 ) , 148–75 ) , Cato was making jokes in Rome against the Greeks . |
| 7 | He was making signs at Philip , mouthing something . |
| 8 | The story goes that a housewife , who was making pancakes before Lent , realised she was late for church … and rushed off , still clutching her pancake . |
| 9 | In 1985 Westland was making losses of £95m on a turnover of £308m and its future looked bleak . |
| 10 | Though Coleridge was lonely , and made ill by the dampness of his rooms , he quickly became a regular attender at chapel , read mathematics for three hours a day , and in ‘ Leisure hours ’ was making translations of Anacreon . |
| 11 | Neither of us were attacked because of the Durances but because the local drug dealers knew I was making enquiries about trafficking and they thought you were working with me . |
| 12 | By the end of 1987 CLBN was making loans to companies controlled by Mr Parretti . |
| 13 | By 1988 , Walkersteel was making profits of £48 million . |
| 14 | He subsequently went to law school and became a patent attorney , where he noticed how difficult and expensive it was to make copies of documents . |
| 15 | An unexpected side effect of Cromer 's reform of the prison system was to make conditions inside prison better for the poor than they often were outside . |