Example sentences of "made [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ She must have made her way to the East End to get to a phone box , ’ came the voice of Control . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | Maria shook her head , still trying to reassemble the thoughts she had lost hold of when she had made her discovery in the lift . |
| 6 | She had also made her mark in the plum role of Jo in the original London and Broadway productions of A Taste of Honey , Shelagh Delaney 's play about a working-class girl who reluctantly faces motherhood after an affair with a black sailor , and finally chooses a life without men . |
| 7 | Travis had made her initiation into the mystery of sensuality at once incredibly tender and shockingly passionate . |
| 8 | Perhaps the old gods had been listening , when she 'd made her wish at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 9 | Government legislation for futher and higher education has made its mark in the form of implementation of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 ( and associated legislation in Scotland and Wales ) . |
| 10 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
| 11 | It has made its way into the whisky business in the past three years by re-opening the Littlemill and Glen Scotia malt distilleries in Bowling and Campbeltown . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The book is highly priced despite Bass 's sponsorship ( cash which must have made its way into the pockets of publisher and author ) . |
| 14 | The ‘ Lancashire ’ coffin appears not to have made its début until the second quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This would eliminate the insiders ' opportunity to profit from insider news , which would have already made its impact on the market . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As a result , Mitchell has told Alan to stay put , at least until the BTR pension trustees have made their decision about the surpluses . |
| 19 | Having made their name as the most mischievous men in pop , their audience watched uneasily as Madness turned down the corners of their mouths . |
| 20 | However , since then their oil prices have increased and the strength of the US dollar has made their exports to the UK less competitive . |
| 21 | I think if anything it 's more likely that what we 'll have at Oxford is some extremely tough women , because these are women who have made their way through the educational system and are tough cookies . |
| 22 | With victory over the Racers , Cleveland Bombers would have made their way to the final ahead of the Scottish team . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For over 400 years , drinkers have made their way to the Majors Arms at Halmonds Frome in Herefordshire for good ale and company . |
| 25 | The whole company had then made their way along the considerable length of the dripping tunnel by torch light , until they had exited at its other end into the moonlit woods outside the perimeter fence . |
| 26 | They have made their case for the ordination of women with obvious conviction , backed up with arguable facts ( in my opinion ) — but the whole argument is delivered in a studiously temperate and fair way that will impress even those who disagree with it . |
| 27 | 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 : |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ The selectors have made their decisions concerning the squad and nobody is going to knock on my door again unless I recapture the form that made me No 1 . |
| 30 | All of them had been trained by the School from the age of eight or nine , eight having made their debut at the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |