Example sentences of "[prep] making it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After making it across the ramp once , unable to see where the hell he was going , he slammed like a sack of spuds . |
| 2 | Dressmakers who might prefer to sell a valuable piece of material rather than settle for the modest profit of making it into a dress . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's got every chance of making it as a player . ’ |
| 4 | Do you dream of making it to the top of the corporate tree whilst still short of the tooth and long in ideas ? |
| 5 | But victory will see them as serious threats to England 's hopes of making it to the finals in 1994 and Gullit may well take Lazio president Sergio Cragnotti 's offer to join Gazza . |
| 6 | But if you achieve your objectives on the way , you stand a much better chance of making it to your ultimate goal . |
| 7 | He let his mind play with that again , the idea of making it on the box . |
| 8 | I ca n't share it — not if there 's any chance of making it on my own . ’ |
| 9 | Fianna Fail , by far the biggest party in the Republic and the only group with genuine prospects of making it on its own , are likely to fall short of a parliamentary majority . |
| 10 | Although he warns against treating France as an extension of the British market , he dismisses the view that it is an awkward place to do business : ‘ There is a market for everything in France and the chances are that the French do n't need any British imports — it 's a question of making it worth their while . |
| 11 | But if she had to start looking for the owner of the Bentley who , she guessed , was probably somewhere in the hotel , she did n't have a hope of making it in time . |
| 12 | In the absence of supplies of the curative substance and of any prospect of making it within months or years , such publicity is a tragic source of false hope and disillusion , and would be better avoided . |
| 13 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
| 14 | The president is not free to choose , to start wars wherever he feels like it , the president is not free to make agreements with any country he feels like making it with and some presidents have had to learn the hard way . |
| 15 | Well the trouble with making it in a jar is you do n't get much skin do you ? |
| 16 | The applicants accepted that the justices had jurisdiction to make such an order but contended that they had erred in law in making it on the facts of this case . |
| 17 | Helen will want the wedding to take place from here , but I 'll have to hold her back from making it into such a big affair that it will take months to prepare . ’ |
| 18 | A terrific heat eased from his room , welding with the air outside making it into a different zone from the rest of the house , like the Gulf Stream off Scotland . |
| 19 | A lower level route is also a good option for days when you 're not feeling up to making it across the tops . |
| 20 | And diamonds were a man 's best friend when it came to making it with the opposite sex . |
| 21 | And I 've gone off making it in the morning . |
| 22 | That is when the strength of his emerging side , and England 's case for making it to the 1994 World Cup finals , will be truly tested . |
| 23 | It did not occur to the Jones that , for example , they were now insisting unswervingly on an 8pm bedtime , and that now Olwyn was being rewarded ( the bedtime story ) for making it on time . |
| 24 | Olsen also mentioned that Frank and a couple of other U21 players has all along been good enough for the WC-squad but as the U21 team had a chance for making it in their own qualifying these players were not considered when games collided ( they usually do ) . |
| 25 | As there are few opportunities for making it by oneself , a great deal of the effort of those in low-income groups goes into working out how they can maximize their income within the existing rules . |
| 26 | And let's not forget a few failed attempts at making it in the movies along the way . |
| 27 | On the other hand , if you 're making something the world wants , by making it as the lowest cost supplier , you can usually expand your work-force . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's a tendency to trivialise the issue by making it about me , about the rights and wrongs of what I have or have n't done , and about my personality . |