Example sentences of "[vb past] make [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 4 | He never did make it to the Academie , but being made international president of PEN , following Francis King , mattered a lot to him . |
| 5 | I did make it to the LSE eventually and , a dozen love affairs and three broken engagements later , into marriage . |
| 6 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 7 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 8 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 11 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |