Example sentences of "[adv] make [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She seemed to be having trouble putting one in front of the other but she did eventually make it to the steps of the disabled bus and fell inside . |
| 2 | A high failure rate ensures that only those with the right aptitude for the job eventually make it to the Company . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some hard-pressed commuters may not make it to the end of the line . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We should just make it to the cabaret — everyone 's there . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What did it feel like when you finally made it to the summit of Everest ? |
| 11 | Paige herself had gone into town to do some shopping and had scarcely made it to the front door when the sound of another car coming up the drive had made her turn . |
| 12 | I eventually retrieved my five pound note that had , luckily , not made it to the duck 's mouth but had got caught on the bank . |
| 13 | Many apologies , Mark , for not making it to the pub as agreed . |
| 14 | You must have that " something extra " — not just to make it to the top but to get employed in the first place . |
| 15 | We had some more Marshalls that some friends lent us and maybe a Roland JC120 — I do n't know whether those ever made it to the final edit , though . ’ |
| 16 | It is a religiously-guarded principle that small clubs can still make it to the top flight . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Half of these make it to the training yards , and not all of them , by a long way , will ever make it to a race track . |
| 19 | If she was already this tired of his witty conversation , he wondered , how would they ever make it to the coffee stage ? |
| 20 | It is doubtful whether Mike will ever make it to the director 's dining-room , to share a table with sons of Conservative peers . |
| 21 | It was the final ignominy in the short , troubled history of the club that nearly made it to the First Division . |
| 22 | And he has now made it to the finals of our fun competition to find the Most Miserable Man on Merseyside after being nominated by step-daughter Christine Johnson and wife , Margaret . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Might I just add that if anybody does actually pay their fee by cheques erm please make it to the right department er as as Tom will give you erm the co the correct er name for for your cheque . |
| 26 | On Christmas Eve , listening to herself making yet more excuses on the telephone , explaining why they could n't make it to a family party , hearing her sister 's disappointment . |
| 27 | ‘ We did n't make it to the Bazaar last night . |
| 28 | Tonight , touts remove five times the original ticket cost from those who did n't make it to the box office . |
| 29 | I would have to wait until Mum and Dad went out to the pub so we could n't make it to the first . |
| 30 | 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 . |