Example sentences of "and making [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He , along with his three brothers is very lively and is always running about and making plenty of noise outside my house . |
| 2 | You 're a fit man , and you 're frightening your wife and making yourself unhappy by letting your mind dwell on this . |
| 3 | When I went to that stress management course we were told to use physical resources like deep breathing and actually making yourself sit down and making yourself go floppy . |
| 4 | So I think that disaster preparedness and , and , and making yourself safer comes only when you have quite a large surplus , and that means in the developed countries of the world , like the Californian was much , much less likely to die from an earthquake even though he lives in a very vulnerable part of the world , than perhaps erm a rural person in Central America . |
| 5 | William Boarden for timber and making ye coking stool — 14s. 11d ’ . |
| 6 | You should see them — they were ringing the Castle round when I came away , and making themselves fires for the night on Cnoc na Lude across the Tilt . |
| 7 | A Sikh Conservative Councillor — Mr Mangat — expressed it quite clearly in 1973 : ‘ The best hope for Sikhs in this country lies in abandoning the turban and making themselves as inconspicuous as possible . |
| 8 | Presenting a report before an audience in this way and making themselves vulnerable to questions and criticisms were new experiences which many governors continue to find unsettling . |
| 9 | The search operation implies units of soldiers taking a village apart , over-turning haystacks , looking under floor coverings and making themselves a thoroughly unpleasant nuisance ; any Protest would merit instant reprisal . |
| 10 | Bob Ivie and Tony Marinello were running the bar , having a great time , and making themselves easily popular ; they were ignoring Dizzy 's Women in favour of the locals , leaving the Sloanes to stand around looking remote and faintly embarrassed in a way that displeased Diane not at all . |
| 11 | Consider now the various kinds of argument which can be used in approaching these points of focus in your material and making something new and interesting from them : mode of argument ( a ) : Revalue a reputation ( or assess relative achievement ) ; example An extended essay which argues that Josephine Tey is a major Scottish writer , and that she has been neglected because she wrote detective fiction . |
| 12 | I went through the whole place from top to bottom , cleaning it , polishing the furniture , and making everything just so , as my parents would have left it . |
| 13 | After a few scotches , he told her he 'd buy a dishwasher , throwing in a string of fatuous clichés about her delicate hands , sparkling and making her laugh . |
| 14 | His wife Aileen came in with pails of milk , scolding at two little girls for clinging onto her skirt and making her spill . |
| 15 | He spent a long time with her , talking , and making her feel better when she was crying and that .. |
| 16 | Instead she took the money from her mother and walked sedately down to the shops with Carla , playing with her and making her laugh . |
| 17 | Carrie felt as if she were falling through space ; falling and falling with the air pressing her chest and making her gasp . |
| 18 | The illusion that she was a spectator , and this was the play , was making her lose touch with reality ; and making her forget the enormity of her present predicament . |
| 19 | Instead his mouth pressed against the soft cotton , tracing the outline of her body and making her shudder . |
| 20 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 21 | Meredith pulled back in alarm , but his hand slid up her spine to cradle her head , immobilising it and making her an easy prey . |
| 22 | His eyes narrowed and flicked briefly to the open box behind her , and suddenly , with an appalling cramping of her stomach , Meredith knew that his glance had betrayed his true purpose in pretending to want her and making her flee from the vault without properly investigating its secrets . |
| 23 | She was desperate to move now , physical awareness returning suddenly to her body and making her realise that she was numb in her left leg and stiff everywhere else . |
| 24 | On the first Saturday of the month Merrill 's telephone rang , shrilling through the morning silence and making her jump . |
| 25 | It was all right for the likes of May and Izzy , always shouting and laughing and making her cry . |
| 26 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 27 | ‘ If present trends continue , ’ Labour Party spokesman Robin Cook said , ‘ we will have fewer people at work making things than we will have really out of work and making nothing . ’ |
| 28 | However , after haranguing us and making me mop up his uniform , the outraged policeman indicated a couple of wash-basins . |
| 29 | She 's made me angry with her anger , and then turned it around so that I 'm eaten up with guilt because she 's been ill and I have n't noticed , and now she 's taking the blame on herself and making me feel worse than ever . |
| 30 | They came back full of glee , raving about it and making me quite jealous and determined to ascend the peak a.s.a.p. , which I did — and they were right . |