Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] make it [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features .
2 Then he did n't make it into the record books .
3 ‘ She said they 'd been helping her to write songs , and sure enough I tried one of them — low string down to D , and top string right down to C — and I got three new songs straight away : Galileo , Virginia Woolf and a ballad that did n't make it onto the record .
4 ‘ We did n't make it to the Bazaar last night .
5 Tonight , touts remove five times the original ticket cost from those who did n't make it to the box office .
6 He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion .
7 Derek who was accompanied by his wife , Lorna , daughters Charlotte and Emma , and his parents , nearly did n't make it to the ceremony .
8 Unfortunately , the Lerwick side did n't make it past the second round .
9 Mark was one level below Muldoon , so his portrait did n't make it among the VIPs .
10 They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches .
11 He heard himself telling a girl that if he had n't made it in the music business by his twentieth birthday , he would kill himself .
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