Example sentences of "making [pron] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this was making my muscles feel slack and unused , and I wanted to sprint up the street just to feel myself alive again . |
| 2 | You 're making my feet wet ! ’ |
| 3 | I glanced down at the limb I was illustratively wiggling , only to find an involuntary erection making my trousers stick out like an accusing finger . |
| 4 | ‘ No , there 's just something about this place that 's making my hairs stand on end . |
| 5 | Dior voids making its customers look ridiculous with extreme designs which will go out of fashion as quickly as they came in . |
| 6 | Bessie nodded , glad for the chance of making her views known to the young mother , and she quickly flounced off out of the kitchen . |
| 7 | She leaned on the files , making her sleeves grey with dust , looking up at the pale blue patches appearing and disappearing above the rooftops outside the window . |
| 8 | It takes time and effort for her to do this : constantly tapping her nose on the typewriter is exhausting , but then so is making her noises understood . |
| 9 | She finished applying her make-up , the blusher making her cheekbones appear even higher than they were , her mouth full and tempting under the deep rose lip-gloss , her finely chiselled features lending her the appearance of an aristocrat . |
| 10 | The mouth of the street was thronged with whores in scarlet , red or violet dresses ; one of them , swaying her hips and making her breasts dance , shouted : ‘ Sir John ! |
| 11 | A certain smugness sugared his deep tones , making her hackles rise . |
| 12 | She may not have any speech , but she has no problems in making her feelings clear : she wails at the memory . |
| 13 | Personally she hated the rain — spoiling shoes , spattering stockings , making her clothes look like rags , and her hair go frizzy . |
| 14 | Six years ago she had been tongue-tied in his presence , and terrified by the strength of her reaction to him , her fear manifesting itself physically , stopping the breath in her throat , tensing her muscles and making her nerves leap every time he moved or spoke to anyone , and the rare occasions on which his glance had strayed idly in her direction , it had actually hurt her . |
| 15 | In these and her historical plays the author made a point of making her characters speak in modern idiom . |
| 16 | She felt hot blood shoot straight to her head , making her temples throb . |
| 17 | His tone was suddenly , unexpectedly velvet , making her nerve-ends quiver . |
| 18 | Lucenzo 's husky voice behind her sounded in her ear , his face so close that his breath flowed softly over her cheek , making her knees weaken . |
| 19 | His words hit her like a battering-ram , making her knees buckle beneath her . |
| 20 | He was so close to her , his arms brushing lightly against hers , making her hairs stand on end . |
| 21 | Tiredness crept over her , making her eyelids droop . |
| 22 | ‘ Where are you taking me ? ’ she said , anger making her eyes flash . |
| 23 | She was across the room in seconds , hugging them both , emotional tears making her eyes shine . |
| 24 | Gladness filled her , irradiating her whole face , making her eyes glow . |
| 25 | The dazibao writers regretted the fact that they had to resort to this medium for making their opinions known . |
| 26 | The audience was also asked if they thought that people should be involved in making their views known in schemes such as the Barrage , which have a large local effect . |
| 27 | The new trustees have exactly the same powers and responsibilities as existing trustees and will , I am sure , have no difficulty making their views known and felt in their new roles . |
| 28 | Demands were now being made that the people , or at least the educated and property-owning classes , be given more effective means of making their wishes felt . |
| 29 | IT was common knowledge the come the new law changes they would almost certainly include the experimental decision to award the put-in following a maul going nowhere to the defending side , so why are we getting so many whingers making their thoughts known whenever they can get their name in print . |
| 30 | Moreover , people in personal crisis are not very effective at making their needs felt in socially acceptable ways ; they do not organize themselves into consumer pressure groups to demand a better deal , not at least until they are recovered from their own crisis . |