Example sentences of "[adj] to make [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ You were lucky to make it to the lav , ’ observed Lydia , meaning that she was very grateful that Betty had made it to the lav , since one of the rules is that the afflicted person does not mop up her own vomit and Lydia was absolutely no good at doing this . |
| 3 | Existing relationships can only get better , although those at breaking point will be unlikely to make it through the year — at least not without an awful lot of work and sacrifice . |
| 4 | So , a 1,200dpi by 1,200 page printer is currently unlikely to make it to the market and searchers after increased resolution must turn to other technologies such as optics . |
| 5 | Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup . |
| 6 | How many of us would n't be happy to make it through a half century in half as good shape . |
| 7 | Her eyes leapt from Abraham begat Isaac and Isaac begat Jacob to Verse 25 of the Gospel According to St Matthew , to which she had turned simply because it began the New Testament and she had been unable to make anything of the Old . |
| 8 | But they were unable to make it to the Lincolnshire course and leading northern jockey Peter Niven stepped in for the ride . |
| 9 | The problem is that the movie is so desperate to make itself into a positive romance , ideal mutual learning process and overall success story that finally it begins to resemble one of those correspondence-school ads on the back of US comics : get some knowledge , triple your income , rise rapidly in your chosen field . |
| 10 | PETER WINTERBOTTOM , once rated too small to make it by the Springboks , broke their ranks , hearts and spirit at Twickenham . |
| 11 | After completing a course at Dublin Film School six years ago , Hughes fled to London , determined to make it as a comic . |
| 12 | But it is difficult to make anything of the sort of entry which assesses the rector at nil and omits the chaplain 's name , implying that he was not in his post . |
| 13 | Leading lady Julia Roberts was keen to make it with a British actor , namely Last Of The Mohicans Daniel Day Lewis , but is reluctant to go ahead with the replacement suggested by producer 's Universal , her former boyfriend Jason Patric . |
| 14 | To make it easier , you could buy little marzipan animals instead of moulding them yourself — however , if you do make your own , it might be fun to make them in the shape of the children 's pets and pipe their names on to them . |