Example sentences of "[adv] made [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've only just made it before the final melt . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The jobless total has risen by forty four percent in a year : just around the corner from grail engineering evidence of firms which have n't made it through the recession , and empty industrial units where firms have yet to try . |
| 8 | WHAT DO you do when your image as a bunch of glamorous rock'n'roll animals starts wearing thin , and you still have n't made it into the big time ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies . |
| 11 | Silvikrin may not be the first to introduce a two-in-one shampoo and conditioner , but they have certainly made it worth the wait . |