Example sentences of "making [noun] at the [noun sg] " 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 | Non-stop swearing , stripping off on the field , making V-signs at the sponsor 's daughter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Since then , we have gone on making love at the club during the day when it is quiet . |
| 10 | In 1976 in London while he was making Shout at the Devil , he told me , ‘ I 've been burning myself out . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |