Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] making " in BNC.
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| 1 | We therefore have to be in a position to share the dreams and the understandings of those people who we believe are making the running for tomorrow , wherever they may be . |
| 2 | Whaling communities in the Faroe Islands have approached Greenpeace for help over growing marine pollution , which they claim is making locally-killed pilot whales inedible . |
| 3 | ClubCall are making it easy for People readers to vote by telephone if they choose not to use the voting form on Page 41 . |
| 4 | Eurocraft are making the Rapid Discovery , a hybrid craft intended to bridge the gap between canoes and rafts . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I 've been making some enquiries about nightschools . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been making great progress . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's the kind of thing I 've been making people do all day . |
| 9 | I 've been making notes on it , all evening . |
| 10 | ‘ Ever since I was a boy , I 've been making models and carvings , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ For your information I 've been making a cradle for Maggie 's baby while you was gone , ’ she said . |
| 12 | THEY 'VE been making room for murder at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford this week , and proved that given the right stage , crime certainly does pay . |
| 13 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've been making a lot of noise ’ , the mining man is alleged to have said . |
| 15 | Not bad for two blokes whose life story is ‘ We 've been making music as a hobby for eight years , and now we want the money ! ’ |
| 16 | They 've been going for years , they 've been making motor oils , engine oil , it 's called filtrate so that 's the liquid . |
| 17 | I 've been making sketches for a painting I shall do when I 'm free . |
| 18 | I suppose I 've been making a fool of myself . |
| 19 | As for Houseparties — well , I 've been making friends with the villa girls who run them on islands throughout the Med ; I 've sailed the Turkish coast on a ‘ Gulet ’ , and gone island-hopping in Greece on the luxurious motor yacht ‘ SunSun ’ — they 're all really floating Houseparties . |
| 20 | Mr Fernie , I gather you 've been making certain allegations about your neighbour , Mr Connon . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 22 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 23 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been making enquiries on your behalf and I 'm astounded — astounded ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Form a long line along the piece of road you 've been making and search the forest to the north . ’ |
| 26 | We 've been making inquiries and learned that Mr Putt has been seen wearing one rather similar . |
| 27 | Well I 've been making Christmas cake this morning so I feel quite er happy with myself . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've been making a fool of yourself , dripping around like some lovesick teenager . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been making several very funny speeches and no bugger has laughed , so I 'm coming down . ’ |
| 30 | Right , he probably does think that , but is n't it interesting er does n't this illustrate the point we 've been making that he felt he needed to have a play that , strung that historical cord as it were . |