Example sentences of "[vb past] make her [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 And Grainne , who had her own might-have-beens , understood , and tried to make her stories of the Bright Palace interesting and amusing , and tried to minimise the rigours and the heartaches of exile on Innisfree .
2 Perhaps the old gods had been listening , when she 'd made her wish at the Trevi Fountain .
3 Her soft-soled sandals did n't make a sound as she crossed the terrace , then she began to make her way through the walled garden , towards the corner where she thought she had seen something — or someone — move .
4 She began to make her way to the door .
5 She found a heavy staff , hefted it and began to make her way to the gate , to go out and beat Tig back to his domain .
6 She began to make her way towards the entrance to the Pit .
7 Then she began to make her way down the plane to find Greg , who had oxygen , and David , who would have glyceryl trinitrate in his case .
8 Travis had made her initiation into the mystery of sensuality at once incredibly tender and shockingly passionate .
9 By ensuring that young Robert Edward would live to father the next generation of Titfords , Elizabeth had made her contribution to the survival of that branch of the family .
10 Maria shook her head , still trying to reassemble the thoughts she had lost hold of when she had made her discovery in the lift .
11 She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew .
12 Madame interrupted with a seven-minute lecture summarising the economics of the real Marguerite Gautier 's career , explaining exactly how and why she had made her way through the Paris of the 1840s with such skill and courage …
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