Example sentences of "making [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's not as though we were n't making money at the time either .
2 YOUR TASK : often you will have been given an explicit purpose for making notes at the outset .
3 Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing .
4 And you 're not I suppose , Léonie shouted : just a holy tart , making eyes at the Bishop to feel important .
5 I often see people who look about my own age working in shops or making appointments at the optician 's even sitting at desks in estate agency showrooms .
6 Still , he quite liked making jokes at the expense of other authors .
7 There are parallels for schools ; if it pleases the customers then revamp the reading record card , add a parents ' race on Sports Day — making accommodations at the margins is equally easy for us too .
8 Non-stop swearing , stripping off on the field , making V-signs at the sponsor 's daughter .
9 The verderers also co-operated with the foresters in supervising the exercise of customary rights within the forest , such as taking wood for fuel , fencing and house-repair ; in making arrangements at the swanimote for the agistment of the king 's demesne woods ; and in carrying out various inquiries in the forest into such matters as the rights of the Crown and the perquisites of the Forest officers .
10 Mickey Hazard meanwhile , has been charged with misconduct by the FA for making gestures at the Cambridge crowd .
11 Since then , we have gone on making love at the club during the day when it is quiet .
12 This phrase means that there was no current vehicle excise licence in force and this point can be verified by making enquiries at the DVLC , Swansea .
13 He would visit his home , making faces at the Pearson children as they hung out their bedroom windows looking for him .
14 I left them , I walked down the platform making faces at the blackshirts .
15 But while their cricketing cousins were making history at the Calcutta Eden Garden pitch , rugby was still embroiled in the hard world of politics .
16 In 1976 in London while he was making Shout at the Devil , he told me , ‘ I 've been burning myself out .
17 Though he 's handed down management of the firm to his daughter Margaret , Cyril still spends each morning making sandwiches at the back of the shop … then it 's off to the bakery in nearby Wanborough in the afternoon .
18 Thus from the start he was temperamentally disposed to look not only at strategies which promised to save money but also at those which offered at least some hope ( if not of winning the Cold War ) of making gains at the expense of the USSR .
19 Initially , Laura told her to start making samples at the Leeswood factory in Cheshire , but , determined that no one should interfere , did not inform anyone else there what Anne was doing .
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