Example sentences of "[verb] it to the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 2 | Only nine people have made it to the top in winter — and one died on the way down . |
| 3 | So far only a small number of women have made it to the top . |
| 4 | In reality Goldie is a shrewd operator who is proud to have made it to the top on her own merits . |
| 5 | He then says that Caesar does n't seem to let his emotions speak more than his reason , but ( this is the next six or seven lines ) when ambitious young people are starting out , at the bottom of the heap , they are humble and look up with awe , but once they have made it to the top , they scorn all those below them , who have helped them to get there . |
| 6 | If the net encircles , it becomes necessary to fasten it to the top and the bottom of each of the stakes that holds the net erect . |
| 7 | ‘ Shout it to the Top ’ , as The Style Council have it . |
| 8 | In 1987 at one of the regular meetings of superintendents , I listened as the deputy chief constable talked his way through a potential problem for the increasing numbers of graduates in the service , who ‘ obviously can not all make it to the top ’ . |
| 9 | Business asked the 10 youngest : ‘ How did you make it to the top so quickly ? ’ |
| 10 | Will wiggling your bottom help you make it to the top ? |
| 11 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 12 | When I look at the Olympic fighters here I see several with good styles and professional potential who should make it to the top if they get with the right coaches . ’ |
| 13 | The most frequent trigger to that crisis was career blockage , the realization that they , with the vast majority , would not make it to the top . |
| 14 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
| 15 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 16 | Next Wednesday , 11 women who made it to the top will speak on success and motivation for women at Women Who Win , a major conference at London 's Institute of Directors ( for details ring 071 839 1233 ) . |
| 17 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 18 | climbing the white horses takes anything from three to five hours … routes up cliffs or pitches as they 're called are well mapped out in the mountain guides … and our team have made made it to the top in good time … |
| 19 | Characters who make it to the top of the hill see a brilliant flash of sunlight , experience momentarily the scent of a summer day abundant with wild flowers and the taste of sweet wine and nectar- and then find themselves standing in a corridor , with their backs to the west wall , opposite the door to the scribe 's room ( location 59 ) . |
| 20 | Few make it to the top . |
| 21 | Breaking through , making it to the top and finding real success is never going to be easy , despite the well-voiced criticism of pop music being ‘ tuneless rubbish ’ . |
| 22 | Do you dream of making it to the top of the corporate tree whilst still short of the tooth and long in ideas ? |
| 23 | It 's still rare to find women artists making it to the top . |
| 24 | He 's a nice boy , ’ she said tolerantly , and a shade absurdly in view of the fact that she was perhaps two years his senior , ‘ but somehow I do n't see him making it to the top . |
| 25 | However , if the marble has enough energy to take it to the top of the hump then it will , of course , roll down the other side . |
| 26 | Many men ( but few women ) deny the existence of subtle impediments that make it particularly difficult for women , blacks , Hispanics and even those talented Asians to make it to the top . |
| 27 | Looks , money , a penchant for power and a great wardrobe — they 're what it takes to make it to the top . |
| 28 | Ambitious to make it to the top , she divorced her first husband , became one of the country 's leading models and in 1946 had her first screen test with Twentieth Century-Fox . |
| 29 | You must have that " something extra " — not just to make it to the top but to get employed in the first place . |
| 30 | He tips the giant striker to make it to the top . |