Example sentences of "[noun pl] make it [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Only one of this year 's Crufts group winners made it through to the last forty !
2 It was true that the chains ' capacity for negotiating good deals made it hard for the family-run business to keep going , and they had many letters offering businesses for sale , and the price of shops was coming down all the time .
3 It seemed that every round of the cup had become a pressure game for Tommy but the Glens made it through to the semi-final against Bangor .
4 Uncertainty about the future and lack of continuity of decisions make it hard for the substitute parents to make a strong commitment to the child and include the natural parent .
5 Their elders make it upstairs in the flats , attended by small children — brothers and sisters who grow up in the Gorbals , Glasser says , to try it with each other .
6 After a knockdown the fallen fighter had so many seconds to make it back to the starting stance and the less able were those who did n't ‘ come up to scratch ’ .
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