Example sentences of "making [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , there 's just something about this place that 's making my hairs stand on end . |
| 2 | Bessie nodded , glad for the chance of making her views known to the young mother , and she quickly flounced off out of the kitchen . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Personally she hated the rain — spoiling shoes , spattering stockings , making her clothes look like rags , and her hair go frizzy . |
| 5 | In these and her historical plays the author made a point of making her characters speak in modern idiom . |
| 6 | His words hit her like a battering-ram , making her knees buckle beneath her . |
| 7 | He was so close to her , his arms brushing lightly against hers , making her hairs stand on end . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Non-nuclear states in the south Pacific , such as Kiribati and its neighbours , are already making their voices heard on the subject of low-level waste dumping , and are beginning to see how the trends are going . |
| 10 | The 1992 open final between St Albans and Woodmill started brightly with the southern team quickly making their intentions clear with a Greg Smale goal in the first minute and an Ian Plummer long shot which was just wide in the third minute . |
| 11 | The people had stopped in their tracks , women were making their children stand behind them . |
| 12 | They were all kind , all courteous and the Sheikh seemed delighted , ordering special fish and salads and making his sons translate for him . |
| 13 | His shiny , elbow-patched suit hung on him , making his shoulders look like a coathanger . |
| 14 | The reason we want to adopt other people 's beliefs is that we know that everyone wants their own beliefs to be true : because , as we 've seen , truth is what makes our own beliefs useful to us in the way I described earlier , by making our actions succeed in fulfilling our desires . |
| 15 | Manicures are , i , are ideal for trimming your nails , pushing down the cuticles , and making your nails look into a nice shape and nice and clean . |
| 16 | Having succeeded in making your formulae work for Lotus 1-2-3 and for As-Easy-As I tried to do the same in Excel . |