Example sentences of "to make [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I have any further requests , I prefer to make them to him personally . |
| 2 | And up in the cellar , after the shooting , we had to make them to a brace like that , a cockerel and a hen . |
| 3 | All this leaves Scotland needing to draw against Norway to make it to Italy , a point taken by the Scottish League , who yesterday agreed to postpone three Premier Division fixtures four days before the decider . |
| 4 | Laguna is a near-certain bet to make it to production in some form . |
| 5 | If Mr Kinnock is to make it to Downing Street , the party needs to win almost all of them . |
| 6 | Many men ( but few women ) deny the existence of subtle impediments that make it particularly difficult for women , blacks , Hispanics and even those talented Asians to make it to the top . |
| 7 | I wanted you to make it to that goddamned fourteenth floor just as much as you did ! |
| 8 | ‘ I think from then on it was fairly clear that he was going to make it to the very top , ’ one retired civil servant recalled . |
| 9 | For those like me who fail to make it to the banks of the Styx , there is compensation at Vlykhada to the north , near Areopolis . |
| 10 | Looks , money , a penchant for power and a great wardrobe — they 're what it takes to make it to the top . |
| 11 | Do n't expect the high rear wing , fitted to the test car to measure airflow , to make it to the UK . |
| 12 | Of the reasons why females so often fail to make it to the very top , two are basic : some of the best women managers do not achieve their full potential in business because they do not know how exceptional they are , and others fail to get a boardroom seat because they lack the confidence . |
| 13 | The generator which tried to make it to Low Birk Hatt Farm , to provide camera lights , turned over on its side and had to be hauled out by tractor . |
| 14 | Ambitious to make it to the top , she divorced her first husband , became one of the country 's leading models and in 1946 had her first screen test with Twentieth Century-Fox . |
| 15 | Please confirm that you are able to make it to my personal assistant . |
| 16 | If you 've been contemplating the unthinkable just because Lemmings did n't look like it was going to make it to the C64 , think again ! |
| 17 | Next year I hope to make it to Czechoslovakia ’ . |
| 18 | It could be worse — you could live in the US where a would-be president must prove to be an Olympiad to make it to the White House . |
| 19 | The row centres on subsidies to French farmers — whose votes are vital if Delors hopes to make it to the French Presidency . |
| 20 | She had to get a move on if she was going to make it to the city before noon . |
| 21 | Computone Corp did n't have to travel too far to make it to Comdex because the company is based in Roswell , Georgia . |
| 22 | In practice , however , shareholders have rubber-stamped the choices of the company 's top brass , who usually elevate loyal company bureaucrats who have failed to make it to the managing board . |
| 23 | An alpha version of NuTcracker is scheduled to make it to the outside world by the end of June followed by a beta by the end of July . |
| 24 | Their numbers are comparatively small , most receive cautions and they are less likely to make it to court . |
| 25 | I had only to make it to Dover and then I could sleep on the ferry to France . |
| 26 | I had come this far and was determined to make it to France . |
| 27 | You must have that " something extra " — not just to make it to the top but to get employed in the first place . |
| 28 | For all I knew , they were flying the plane that I now knew was never going to make it to Bangkok . |
| 29 | At this rate we 'll be lucky to make it to Makassar before the next monsoon ! " |
| 30 | erm but there were er a small number of people who managed to make it to good old healthy seventies eighties . |