Example sentences of "[vb past] making [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hated making that film . |
| 2 | With Matthew clutching at her apron , Ann , who was servant as well as mistress in her house , bustled to open the door , while Jill peered cautiously round the kitchen door and Nathan began making those deep crooning noises that indicated he was becoming excited . |
| 3 | But I do n't re think they realize what they were doing when they started making that flower border round , it 's going to be a never ending job . |
| 4 | But he was incensed ; he came alongside me and started making all sorts of threatening gestures . |
| 5 | I felt a lot of anger , but there was nothing I could do with it ; then it faded , until I started making some connections with feminism at the beginning of the seventies . |
| 6 | So I started making some calls of my own . |
| 7 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 8 | He felt the contact was so invaluable that he was prepared to turn down the job at the head of one of the UK 's premier blue-chip companies if it meant making such a sacrifice . |
| 9 | Of course , outputting them at 300dpi meant making some sacrifices so Adobe build in a mechanism for improving the shapes of the characters at low resolution , the technique is called hinting , and to protect their investment they encrypted both the typefaces and the hinting method so that the faces would only work properly with their own version of PostScript . |
| 10 | I mean I was appalled because she kept making such a lot of mistakes . |
| 11 | Today , Rennie admitted making more threats to Mr Loren in a park in Cheltenham . |
| 12 | And the next , and the next ; the mess made making each broom had to be cleared up with that same broom , and wore it away . |
| 13 | Though the import of the announcement was obvious to Indians , it seems not to have been obvious to the British government , which avoided making any explicit statement on dominion status for India for another twelve years . |
| 14 | In other responses , Lord Melchett , executive director of Greenpeace , said that the White Paper was even worse than had been expected from leaks and that the government had " dodged the important issues by reiterating existing inadequate policies and avoided making any new commitments which would protect the environment " . |