Example sentences of "[vb past] make their [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many went to Paris to find work , but after the fall of France they began making their way to the cities of the south , where they could live in safety . |
| 2 | After the Second World War , Rottweilers in the USA , as in Europe , started to make their mark in the obedience arena . |
| 3 | This order was maintained as the runners came past the stands and started to make their way along the back stretch , and with half a mile to go the field was tightly bunched . |
| 4 | To wait for their enemy , the ordinary people of Famagusta had made their way to the heart of the city , where the Cathedral soared like a vast triangled reliquary , flanked by princely buildings and faced , across the piazza , by the handsome , doorless shell of the Palace . |
| 5 | Certainly these two had made their mark on the ever-widening fields of botany and horticulture when John Bartram wrote his first letter to Philip Miller on 20 April 1755 : |
| 6 | And the records at St Albans and Stamford show that these permanent buildings had made their appearance by the early fourteenth century . |
| 7 | At this point , the Orange leadership began to retreat , suggesting that they had made their point with the church parade and calling on the Portadown loyalists not to break the law . |
| 8 | All went well until the patrol reached the area of the Trig al Ab , the old camel track leading into the desert from the coast road where L Detachment had made their rendezvous after the first operation . |
| 9 | The army absorbed most of the Scottish gentry who hoped to make their living from the sword , but there were also many Scots in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines , and those who entered the senior service appear to have been attracted by the substantial advantages which the navy had over the army for a gentleman of limited means . |
| 10 | He described how one of the monks , Brother Camille Mabilais , hid retreating British airmen who failed to make their way to the boats at Dunkirk . |
| 11 | The Chinese tended to make their kites in the outlined shapes of either fish such as the blue or red card or as birds such as the stuffed owls and vultures shown here . |
| 12 | ( And the western Greeks tended to make their dedications at the nearest of the Greek sanctuaries of the mainland , Olympia , rather than creating or patronizing a big cult centre of their own , ) Fifth-century Italy and Sicily did produce historians , like Hippys of Rhegion , or Antiochus and Philistus of Syracuse , the ‘ Sicilian Herodotus and the Sicilian Thucydides ’ ; even Dionysius I , tyrant of Syracuse from the late fifth century to 367 , wrote history as well as the tragedies and comedies for which he was , as we shall see , more famous . |