Example sentences of "it made its [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The galley pulled away , its oars dipping as it made its way down , following the tide out into the open sea .
2 Azhag flew over the battlefield on his wyvern , swooping upon regiment after regiment and harrying the retreating army as it made its way to the refuge of Wolfenburg .
3 Self and Citrine frequently had to sit through the same item of business as it made its way through three , or in extreme cases five , formal meetings of different bodies before being finally approved .
4 Many of the small boats which usually travelled its waters were moored for the night and The Sandhopper passed a number of them as it made its way up river .
5 " As you say , right , yes , will do , will do , " the small figure said , backing off , half-nodding , half-bowing as it made its way backwards to the winding-stair .
6 It made its mark on an emergent philosophy of town and country planning ( Sheail , 1981 ) .
7 In September 1961 it made its find and , in typical bureaucratic behaviour , a prospecting licence was issued to Northgate in December 1961 by the Irish state .
8 It made its debut at the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring with Jack behind the wheel , but he was forced to retire after nine laps .
9 The economics ministry has kept mum about why it made its decision so abruptly , but most in the industry assume it is a first step towards rejoining an international quota system .
10 Bingham J. dismissed Mr. Cheall 's action ; the Court of Appeal ( by a majority ) allowed his appeal , but the House of Lords , in turn , allowed an appeal against this court 's decision and upheld Bingham J. One of the issues before the House of Lords was whether Mr. Cheall had been entitled to be heard by the disputes committee of the T.U.C. before it made its decision .
11 RETURNED to London after too long an absence , Le Cirque Imaginaire is back until 6 March in the Riverside Studios where it made its UK debut many years ago .
12 Neville Duke 's P.1067 back at the airfield from which it made its record breaking run along the Sussex coast .
13 It made its impact because it was so unexpected .
14 Because teachers ' centres and the increase of in-service education in the late 1970s and 1980s occurred outside schools , there was some separation between the flow of curriculum development in the sense in which it was supported in schools by the work of advisers and advisory teachers and in the way it made its impact on individual teachers through regular courses of familiarization and in-service education .
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