She started 'making noises''about' running for office. [=she started saying things that showed she was thinking about running for office]
Politicians are 'making (all) the right noises' about improving the schools, but they don't want to spend any money to do it.
Congress has been 'making' (a lot of) 'noise' about lowering taxes, but no one expects it to happen.
(..) if it be made of penetrable stuff If damned custom have not brazed it so that it is proof and bulwark against sense What have I done that thou darest wag thy tongue in noise so rude against me? Such an act that blurs the grace and blush of modesty Calls virtue hypocrite, makes marriage vows (..)2015 Hamlet