Example sentences of "[pers pn] be making a [adj] " 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 am making a slow but steady recovery . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm making a fresh pot of coffee … ’ |
| 8 | I , I do n't know , I certainly would n't rely on just a sales brochure if I was making a major trans |
| 9 | The first time I tried to film mink in the wild was in the spring of 1990 , in mid-Wales , where I was making a 15-minute programme for Channel 4 . |
| 10 | I was making a mature and rational decision . |
| 11 | And indeed , to go for a more precise figure would suggest that I was making a particular point . |
| 12 | Had she been making a genuine decision to refuse the treatment , it would be necessary in a case such as this to find out if the patient had received any advice as to the consequences of a refusal to accept treatment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 15 | I guess everyone said it is 95 per cent curable ; the treatment is good ; you are making a good recovery . |
| 16 | SERAFIN : You sound as if you are making a cautious discovery about your feelings for the first time . |
| 17 | ‘ You are making an unsolicited comment , Señorita Howard ? |
| 18 | ‘ You 're making a right fool of yourself , are n't you ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You 're making a nice job of massacring those burgers , ’ her companion yelled at her man . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're making a terrible mistake — ’ |
| 21 | I believe you 're making a terrible mistake . ’ |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | ‘ Because you 're making a fuck-awful job of it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 're making a big mistake , Sir , ’ he said . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | I think you 're making a valid point here . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're making a fucking big mistake , ’ said the second man , his teeth clenched in anger . |
| 28 | You 're making an absolute fool of yourself . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm afraid you 're making an illegitimate leap from fact to value . |
| 30 | You were making a good point there . |