Example sentences of "[verb] make [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apple Computer Inc chairman and chief executive officer John Sculley 's name has made it to the short list to be Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration : if he takes the cabinet post , Apple 's likely to look outside for a replacement . |
| 2 | A woman who 's devoted more than twenty years to caring for her disabled daughter has made it to the finals of the ITN Carer of the Year Awards . |
| 3 | Luke , on the other hand , has made it into the bigtime . |
| 4 | Charles tried to make it down the stairs with his eyes closed to allay the pain . |
| 5 | When all is said and done , the attraction of earning a living playing a sport you enjoy is a strong one and it is not hard to understand why some players have to try to make it on the Tour . |
| 6 | ‘ We want to make it to the restaurant some time this century ! ’ she heard him informing her . |
| 7 | This is the favourite place for Romanians who want to make it to the West . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 10 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 12 | I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics . |
| 13 | As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I think from then on it was fairly clear that he was going to make it to the very top , ’ one retired civil servant recalled . |
| 15 | If you 've been contemplating the unthinkable just because Lemmings did n't look like it was going to make it to the C64 , think again ! |
| 16 | She had to get a move on if she was going to make it to the city before noon . |
| 17 | When an hour later she did surface , she knew at once that there was no way she was going to make it to the office on time . |
| 18 | She was just a young kid fronting a band , determined she was going to make it to the top — like her idol . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't even think about about the decathlon again until Duncan Mathieson , another one of Jim 's group down here , started going on about being the only one who was going to make it to the World Student Games . |
| 20 | Despite the recent and continuing efforts of the United States Tennis Association , and indeed , other National Tennis Associations , to provide better opportunities for all , ( see Main Point ) , it remains a fact that , if you 're an aspiring black tennis player , you have to be something very special if you 're going to make it in the professional game these days . |
| 21 | To this day it is nearly impossible to find a Canadian movie screened ; in any of our cities , or investment capital which would allow a cutting edge industry to develop in Saskatchewan rather than Idaho , or a cultural figure who has not had to make it in the US ( Bryan Adams ) or the UK ( Conrad Black ) before the person is taken seriously at home . |
| 22 | Inside , the 'heads skip round the arena with bells on their ankles , and wave fluorescent plastic tubes in the air — but sadly , tonight the Grateful Dead never manage to make it past the mildly interesting stage . |
| 23 | Inside , the 'heads skip round the arena with bells on their ankles , and wave fluorescent plastic tubes in the air — but sadly , tonight the Grateful Dead never manage to make it past the mildly interesting stage . |
| 24 | An alpha version of NuTcracker is scheduled to make it to the outside world by the end of June followed by a beta by the end of July . |
| 25 | Looks , money , a penchant for power and a great wardrobe — they 're what it takes to make it to the top . |
| 26 | As far as I know , there are no other examples of ex GWR design main line engines having made it along the North Wales coast , and I for one will follow with interest the happenings of February 29th 1992 . |
| 27 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 28 | The interesting question is , under today 's restrictions , just how many of America 's great leaders of the past would still have made it to the White House . |
| 29 | Major may have made it to the White House before Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand , but that does not mean he is regarded as being more important than either of them . |
| 30 | Given the current moral climate , just how many of the great American presidents would have made it into the White House today ? |