Example sentences of "[adv] made it [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team . |
| 2 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 3 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 4 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
| 5 | She just made it to the bathroom in time , before she parted unceremoniously with the contents of her stomach , then hung weakly against the side of the washbasin , more wretched and humiliated than she 'd ever felt in her life . |
| 6 | So the Queen and I just made it before the deluge ! |
| 7 | We finally made it to the road and sped along towards the village in a cloud of dust , the three of us crouching low in the jeep . |
| 8 | What did it feel like when you finally made it to the summit of Everest ? |
| 9 | Some of us were bright and early to breakfast on Saturday morning and even more made it to the opening ceremony by the President in the Physics Lecture Theatre . |
| 10 | Their backs even made it into The Times when the newspaper published names of the finishers . |
| 11 | It turned out the Australian 's baggage with much expensive equipment had never arrived in Quito , not even made it to the continent ( or so he 'd been told ) , and I sensed he had no sympathy left for any other 's misfortune . |
| 12 | Guinness III , against Cazenove stockbroker David Mayhew , never even made it to the courtroom after the prosecution announced that new evidence made hopes of a conviction unrealistic . |
| 13 | Jesse Jackson almost made it to the White House . |
| 14 | His car barely made it across the finish line , spluttering and choking , before the fuel supply dried up . |
| 15 | Some of those who actually made it to the polling stations could not disguise their disappointment . |
| 16 | actually made it in the charts using two Amigas but I 'm only using the one m one Amiga . |
| 17 | Back at the village post office he 'd sorted out the usual junk mail which never made it past the door of the shop and found that he was left with one real , honest-to-God letter . |
| 18 | Bunny and Martin wandered over with more drinks but Dod never made it past the darts game . |
| 19 | I had intended to try and ring Jo as soon as I got in , to find out what the hell was going on , but I never made it for the house was in turmoil . |
| 20 | And in fact they never made it to the man 's house in the country that night , because Boy made him stop the car twice more . |
| 21 | In the middle layer is greenish gabbro , molten rock that never made it to the surface of the crust . |
| 22 | If London did n't go as you 'd hoped — perhaps you never made it to the end — a float will help you put things into perspective and will leave you feeling more positive . |
| 23 | And he gave me a smacker on the forehead , said he 'd keep me up his sleeve if he never made it to the altar . |
| 24 | Kids who never made it to the gig are cruising aggressively around in a heady charged way . |
| 25 | Then the album came out about six months later and there was no track — the track never made it to the album ! |
| 26 | Alas , Townshend 's monster Hiwatt never made it onto the House Of Love album . |