Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 2 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 3 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 4 | So I took it to the British Museum , who identified it for me . |
| 5 | And I I have n't I with the No it 's very simple , I left it to the select committees of the House of Commons . |
| 6 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 7 | God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch . |
| 8 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
| 9 | It decided her ; instantly she followed it to the broad Danube . |
| 10 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |
| 11 | So we referred it to the confed and er we had the officers down and the matter was resolved and we got our increase and it was acceptable by everybody . |
| 12 | With these , but with no filming permits , since they were impossible to obtain at the time , we winged it to the steaming metropolis of Jakarta . |
| 13 | I mean would it be the same if we had ten and we raised it to the three quarters . |
| 14 | They had sent round a circular to all members asking them to mention John whenever possible in their reports on the Middle East ; they had helped organize a petition among all members and accompanied Chris and me when we delivered it to the Iranian Embassy and Downing Street to mark John 's six hundredth day in December . |
| 15 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 16 | They made it to the winning post fairly creditably . |
| 17 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
| 18 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 19 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 20 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 21 | It 's just like , no two girls got expelled from my last school for drugs but I think they actually one of them gave it to the other one but they were both expelled . |
| 22 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 23 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 24 | His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby . |
| 25 | Three days after receiving the inspectors report , he passed it to the Serious Fraud Office for further investigation . |
| 26 | The star lot , Holbein 's Lady with a Squirrel , was withdrawn two weeks ago by Lord Cholmondeley , when he sold it to the National Gallery for £10 million . |
| 27 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 28 | Slipping them into a plain buff envelope , he transferred it to the inside pocket of his jacket and prepared to go out . |
| 29 | He returned it to the failed initiate without comment . |
| 30 | He raised it to the blushing Thérèse . |