Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] made [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unafraid , he plucked the heart and made his exit . |
| 2 | He said this quite casually , then stepped down from the pulpit and made his way to the centre of the altar once more . |
| 3 | And thus , not anonymous among hundreds but the centre and focus of a tight little group of a dozen guards , Harry crossed the drawbridge and made his entry into Parfois . |
| 4 | Blagg tried for a head shot and missed , felt a punch in the chest that made his knees fold , but he fired again and saw the pistol fall loose . |
| 5 | She shed no tears as she left the cottage and made her way along the lane to the priest 's house . |
| 6 | Refusing the invitation to go in for coffee , Fran hurried back to the car and drove across town , only slowing when she turned in through the gates of the college and made her way along the rutted gravel path to pull up in front of the old sandstone building next to Luke 's car . |
| 7 | With Osbern of Eu and a group of his own leaders and their following , Thorfinn had visited the Lothians and made his views known to the offending bands with frightening precision . |
| 8 | Mr Bell , schoolmaster at the time of the flood , described the scene : ‘ The water forced its way across the Nook and made its way down Back Street . |
| 9 | In her later years a thyroid condition destroyed the figure that made her famous . |
| 10 | The injured man fainted but when he came round he managed to dislodge his hand from the fence and made his way home with the blade still stuck in the wound . |
| 11 | The driver looked on sentimentally as she alighted from the car and made her way down the path . |
| 12 | He stumbled into the blackness and made his way to the wreckage , where Miller was meant to have found out the location of the Home Guard HQ . |
| 13 | Still clutching her champagne glass , she hurried from the terrace and made her way along a path through the garden towards the sea . |
| 14 | With a last dissatisfied glance in the mirror , she left the bedroom and made her way downstairs , vaguely wondering why she did n't feel light of heart . |
| 15 | Offering up a quick prayer that she would n't bump into any of the other cast members en route , she slipped into the corridor and made her way to Dane 's room , pausing at his door to steel herself as another onrush of nerves all but paralysed her . |
| 16 | A party of French tourists arrived from the bazaars and made their way up the steps . |
| 17 | In particular , I was waiting for the hedgehog that made its nest at the end of our garden last autumn to come back to life . |
| 18 | Corbett then turned on his heel and strode out of the room and made his way back up the alley . |
| 19 | She dusted the room and made his breakfast . |
| 20 | The bid , made in partnership with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts ( KKR ) , the group that made its name in the leveraged buy-out binge of the 1980s , enhances the deal-making reputation of Fleet/Norstar 's chairman , Terrence Murray . |
| 21 | When he was certain it was out of range , Adam rose from the trench and made his way towards the hangars , alert to any further helicopters being readied . |
| 22 | As I clambered out of the trench and made my way across to Brigade H.Q I could see the jeep with the stretchers on top waiting at the entrance to the orchard . |
| 23 | The German mortars were exploding on the other side of the wood as I clambered out of the trench and made my way through the trees in the direction of the road . |
| 24 | He closed his eyes , finished the psalm and made his way to the pallet bed . |
| 25 | Somehow , though , we did feel better as we filed out at the end of the service and made our way down to the river . |
| 26 | When the Watermen closed its doors , Connor locked up for the night and made his way upstairs . |
| 27 | They had got in through a cellar window at the back and made their way up to a small office on the third landing where , according to Cyril , the sole employee had been there man and boy until he became fossilized and had to be removed feet first from his station . |
| 28 | Under cover of the rugby-players , who surrounded them so that they were invisible to the sentries , two officers managed to bury themselves underground , where they remained until darkness : they then came to the surface and made their escape . |
| 29 | They walked along the platform and made their way to the Metropolitan Line , thus entering , though they did not know it , the oldest part of the system . |
| 30 | These performances directed by Kuijken have many of the qualities that made his set of the Haydn ‘ Paris ’ Symphonies , also on Virgin , so winning . |