Example sentences of "[modal v] make it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth .
2 ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’
3 The meteorology men told him his wind strengths at his chosen altitude of 50,000 feet , and he worked out he would make it in 5.4 hours flying at Mach .
4 It 's bendy , you can make it into any shape , you know the one ?
5 Wh whilst that 's being done , can I just add that do n't feel inhibited ab I want you to make your best case , but I mean you know , if if you can make it in five minutes instead of half an hour then nothing will be lost in that .
6 People like Garth Crooks , Mike MacFarlane and Garry Thompson traced back how they could have made their blackness the basis for defeatism , admitting that ‘ there 's no way a black guy can make it in this society . ’
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