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

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1 The oars dipped unhurriedly in the calm water , and when the boat eventually arrived at the shore there was a further infuriating delay before the procession formed up and began making its way round the harbour to Ballingolin .
2 Mr Grover was as good as his word and on Christmas morning soon after breakfast a very strange procession began making its way from the market .
3 Nevertheless , it was this detested regime which managed to make its mark in the New World , for the successful urban renewal of Paris combined with the great prestige which the city enjoyed as a centre of art and culture drew to it Americans of all kinds .
4 In Germany the parliamentary faction of the largest of the ruling parties , the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , on Feb. 12 voted to make its approval of the treaty dependent on the passage of an amendment to the country 's Basic Law ( constitution ) to restrict the right of asylum .
5 Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families .
6 Though the single-break flat-lidded coffin had made its entrance in the last quarter of the sixteenth century — the lead shell of Lady Elizabeth Howard ( d.1591 ) with appliqué lettering at Withyham , Sussex , is of this type , as is the pictorial representation of Sir Henry Unton 's 1596 coffin in the Unton portrait at the National Portrait Gallery , as well as a small sculptural representation of a coffin on the 1615 mural monument to Susan Kinges at Morston , Norfolk — the single-break gable-lidded shell seems to have been more popular .
7 It was n't until much later that Sidney E. Berger , curator of manuscripts at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester , Massachusetts , explained to me that the word had made its début in the Tarzan movies .
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