Example sentences of "make [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 why they do n't change over in this country because we 're the odd one out and if they make cars they 've got ta make them with the steering wheel one side or the other
2 That would make it off the root directory .
3 Sounds as if IBM Corp has thrown in the towel and acknowledged that it will never make it with a word processor of its own : it has become a member of Wordperfect Corp 's Customer Advantage Programme , a fancy name for a company-wide licence for IBM to distribute and use Wordperfect products throughout the company with ‘ significant savings ’ and simplified licence administration .
4 Half of these make it to the training yards , and not all of them , by a long way , will ever make it to a race track .
5 On Christmas Eve , listening to herself making yet more excuses on the telephone , explaining why they could n't make it to a family party , hearing her sister 's disappointment .
6 Now , do you think we can make it to the post box let's go and have a try shall we ?
7 Tonight , touts remove five times the original ticket cost from those who did n't make it to the box office .
8 If she was already this tired of his witty conversation , he wondered , how would they ever make it to the coffee stage ?
9 Bernier , in his role as imperial surgeon , did make it into the zenana complex , but was not much the wiser afterwards :
10 Then he did n't make it into the record books .
11 United 's Maurice Malpas sustained a groin injury and is doubtful for Scotland 's match against Germany on Wednesday but Duncan Ferguson should make it despite a thigh knock .
12 You can make it from a standing start to 60 miles per hour in 8.6 seconds — almost exactly the same time as a Mazda MX3 .
13 England did n't quite make it in the Rugby World Cup but we did manage to fight rival bids from the likes of Sweden , Austria and Canada to host the prestigious Hair Olympics '94 .
14 It is a chance for him to prove he can make it in the Football League . ’
15 Tie the aircraft down with fixed pickets — concrete blocks and flimsy corkscrew pickets do not make it in the tiedown stakes .
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