Example sentences of "make their [noun sg] on the " in BNC.

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1 And it was on one of those nights late in May that Sam , Jackie and Rose made their assault on the great house .
2 Australians made their mark on the 1990 tournament statistics of both the European and USPGA Tours .
3 And his grandfather and grandmother , who also made their mark on the Wimbledon scene .
4 They made their fire on the sand and danced round it .
5 In Colombo policemen often took advantage of municipal health , safety and traffic regulations in order to ‘ tax ’ carters , rickshaw drivers and others who made their living on the streets of the capital , and in the twentieth century bus drivers regularly bribed the police .
6 Whitefly make their home on the underside of leaves , where the adults feed and lay their eggs .
7 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 :
8 Ferguson accompanied the European Ryder Cup team as Colin Montgomery 's personal guru to Kiawah Island last year and has groomed many leading amateurs , several of whom who have made their mark on the European professional circuit .
9 Alas , many others had already made their judgment on the flimsy evidence of that supposed phone call … and had found the next King guilty .
10 The lovable but stupid lemmings will be making their debut on the Lynx in this classic save 'em up .
11 After ten years building warehouses , they moved into high-rise development in 1965 , and then spent the next ten years making their mark on the Toronto skyline .
12 LIVERPOOL boxing brothers Carl ( left ) and Paul Wright are both making their mark on the professional scene .
13 Voters have to make their decision on the basis of assessments of particular people , with their own special policy commitments , in relation to the more general political biases and policy commitments of their parties .
14 He also took a few new recruits , notably three young lieutenants , Harry Poat , Tony Marsh and Johnny Wiseman , all three of whom went on to make their mark on the regiment .
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