Example sentences of "[was/were] making [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were frantically busy , ’ said Lois Brown , manager of Waterstones in Royal Avenue , Belfast , ‘ and what we noticed was the rise in the number of people that were making purchases with credit cards . |
| 2 | ‘ We were making loads of money and people were throwing champagne at us , ’ she said in an interview with the People newspaper . |
| 3 | They were making love without contraceptives . |
| 4 | Two of them were making adjustments with hand tools . |
| 5 | Other examples confirm this distinction : ( 138a ) It was then I knew that they were making war against Man , the individual within ! |
| 6 | ‘ On its own , perhaps not , but I 'd also been told that day that people believed you and an English journalist who lives here , James Cobalt , were making enquiries about drug trafficking . |
| 7 | In order to keep an erection long enough to fake orgasm , I had to imagine that I was making love to Karen . |
| 8 | Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder , RAF commander in Egypt , wrote that ‘ the cloven hoof of Pan American [ is ] now well to the fore ’ , and called BOAC 's attitude ‘ hopelessly defeatist ’ , Pan American was making inroads in Africa and the Middle East that BOAC might never be able to match . |
| 9 | We were dismayed to learn that the new editor was making decisions without access to the full file on our paper . |
| 10 | Blogg 's brewery was making ales in Roman Road , Barnsbury , in the East End of London around the turn of the century . |
| 11 | When I was making runs at Leeds Graham Gooch came up and asked me how on earth I was batting so well on that pitch . |
| 12 | Dustin never forgot the importance of Henry Livings 's play in his career , and many years later , when he was making Agatha in England , he sought the modest playwright out and took him to lunch at a smart restaurant . |
| 13 | I knew he loved and needed me , but the fact that while I washed up , scrubbed , cleaned and tidied for us both he was making contact with people I had never met , would never meet , and whose names I did not know , formed a cloud over my days . |
| 14 | Cakes , Easter gifts and toys contributed £75 to club funds , while the Traidcraft stall was making money for communities in the Third World . |
| 15 | Not that Melissa cared two hoots whether it was making money for Bonard or not — whatever Iris might claim , he was certainly not strapped for cash — but it was essential for Iris 's self-esteem that it should go well . |
| 16 | Edward Gould made 12/ for cutting three acres of grass for the mine horses , and in another period was making water-races at Paddy End , constructing 242 yards at 3d. per yard . |
| 17 | While in Judaea the compiler of the Book of Daniel was adapting to the situation the old image of the Fourth Kingdom , part iron and part clay ( D. Flusser , Israel Oriental Studies 2 ( 1972 ) , 148–75 ) , Cato was making jokes in Rome against the Greeks . |
| 18 | He was making signs at Philip , mouthing something . |
| 19 | The Ranger got safely out to sea , with three prisoners aboard , some others who had been taken having been released , and by 6 am was making course for Kirkcudbright Bay in the Solway Firth . |
| 20 | The story goes that a housewife , who was making pancakes before Lent , realised she was late for church … and rushed off , still clutching her pancake . |
| 21 | In 1985 Westland was making losses of £95m on a turnover of £308m and its future looked bleak . |
| 22 | Though Coleridge was lonely , and made ill by the dampness of his rooms , he quickly became a regular attender at chapel , read mathematics for three hours a day , and in ‘ Leisure hours ’ was making translations of Anacreon . |
| 23 | Neither of us were attacked because of the Durances but because the local drug dealers knew I was making enquiries about trafficking and they thought you were working with me . |
| 24 | By the end of 1987 CLBN was making loans to companies controlled by Mr Parretti . |
| 25 | By 1988 , Walkersteel was making profits of £48 million . |