Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I do n't know if Bobby will break into the Great Britain team for the World Cup final against Australia in October , but he should make it for the next series and then hang on to the job . |
| 32 | I would have to wait until Mum and Dad went out to the pub so we could n't make it to the first . |
| 33 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |
| 34 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 35 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 36 | Nor was there any reason to believe they would get it over the next thirty years , either . |
| 37 | Yeah , well if that 's alright , only as being that 's the , what I call the end of month , like I 've got to pay all of the bills and they must get it until the next , the end of the month |
| 38 | In other words , if you could n't get it in the next three months , you could forget about it ! |
| 39 | sorry , Mr Chairman we have regular meetings with the Suffolk utilities and er this point can be made to them , although each of the utilities has it 's own colour , so that then perhaps those intended which are holes that have to be repaired , but certainly I can , I can erm understand Mr 's concern and I will put it to the next meeting of the Suffolk Highway Meeting this week . |
| 40 | We 'll put it as the last item . |
| 41 | Well , er , it 's all according to whether they can afford it in the first instance , secondly , is it gon na be across the board ? |
| 42 | ‘ I 'm buying it , but you can save it for the next guy . |
| 43 | He could now lose it on the last ball ! |
| 44 | But Ferguson insisted : ‘ Let me make one thing crystal clear — Manchester United wo n't bottle it on the last lap of the championship . |
| 45 | I 'm not complaining about it , but I say I did n't raise it for the first time |
| 46 | And then if need be we 'll raise it at the next meeting . |
| 47 | However , USL believes that HP will adopt it within the next three or four months . |
| 48 | Let's close shall we with a song of , of commitment really , it 's number four hundred in the er songs of fellowship and were gon na sing it to the first tune , oh call for us I believe , but let's look at it again . |
| 49 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 50 | Because I have on good information and I 'll say it for the first time on this programme , I intend to give this in my evidence tomorrow , that Rover intend to close not the south works first , but the north works first . |
| 51 | he 's saying he did n't say it in the first place . |
| 52 | If you say , as sometimes judges in Court cases do , sometimes child abusers do , oh she led me on , she was eager and willing , oh she erm , well judges do n't actually say it in the first person , do they , usually ? |