Example sentences of "[pers pn] be making some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so I 'm making some progress there . |
| 2 | While I was making some tea there was a tremendous crash . |
| 3 | Now erm , you 're making some notes on what to look at when you 're drawing the graph |
| 4 | Unfortunately at long last we are making some progress along that line . |
| 5 | However we 're beginning to make some progress and we 're making some progress for a number of reasons . |
| 6 | Even if we only got all those old tickets and things into green bags and started cleaning that out it would it would look as though we 're making some effort . |
| 7 | Delgado 's boy got back while we were making some coffee and said Russell would be here . |
| 8 | In view of the hardships endured by many peasants , even at times when they were making some gains at the expense of their lords , it is hardly surprising that there were outbreaks of discontent , some of which took violent forms — indeed it has been said that peasant movements were as much a part of seigneurial society as strikes are of large-scale capitalism . |
| 9 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 10 | He 's making some money though . |
| 11 | He 's making some inquiries , and he 's going to ring me back . ’ |
| 12 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 13 | ‘ I heard he was making some kind of detective story with McQueen . ’ |
| 14 | Paige looked round , unsure if he was making some allusion to her or not . |
| 15 | Then I realized he was making some sort of joke and endeavoured to smile appropriately , though I suspect some residue of my bewilderment , not to say shock , remained detectable in my expression . |