Example sentences of "[vb past] made it [prep] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Joseph had made it through the gate , but was cornered by the populace in an alley . |
| 6 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 12 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 13 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |