Example sentences of "[adv] make it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A high failure rate ensures that only those with the right aptitude for the job eventually make it to the Company . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 6 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 7 | He was not good enough to make it into the rugby first XV but was among the top academically , taking lots of prizes , and becoming school captain . |
| 8 | No-one would have planned a system like it , but , the argument goes , its powers to examine and revise legislation are scarcely great enough to make it worth the bother of finding something to replace it . |
| 9 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So the Queen and I just made it before the deluge ! |
| 12 | Another attempt to depart saw us just make it around the airport pattern . |
| 13 | We should just make it to the cabaret — everyone 's there . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What did it feel like when you finally made it to the summit of Everest ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've only just made it before the final melt . ’ |
| 18 | You must have that " something extra " — not just to make it to the top but to get employed in the first place . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Their manager , Graham Turner , had said before the game that Wolves could still make it into the play-offs , but this result has put paid to those hopes . |
| 21 | It is a religiously-guarded principle that small clubs can still make it to the top flight . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If she was already this tired of his witty conversation , he wondered , how would they ever make it to the coffee stage ? |
| 24 | It is doubtful whether Mike will ever make it to the director 's dining-room , to share a table with sons of Conservative peers . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , there are rumours that the single or dual-processor Cobra , currently pegged at under $100,000 rather than the previously estimated $200,000 ( UX No 374 ) , may not ever make it out the door because of overlap problems . |
| 26 | It was the final ignominy in the short , troubled history of the club that nearly made it to the First Division . |
| 27 | The sea mammals are well represented , with dolphin and whale ( especially the humpback whale ) in the top 10 , and the largest of the dolphins — the killer whale , or orca — also making it into the top 20 . |
| 28 | He thought he could just about make it up the stairs . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |