Example sentences of "have make [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness . |
2 | Apple Computer Inc chairman and chief executive officer John Sculley 's name has made it to the short list to be Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration : if he takes the cabinet post , Apple 's likely to look outside for a replacement . |
3 | A woman who 's devoted more than twenty years to caring for her disabled daughter has made it to the finals of the ITN Carer of the Year Awards . |
4 | Luke , on the other hand , has made it into the bigtime . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
7 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
8 | 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 . |
9 | To this day it is nearly impossible to find a Canadian movie screened ; in any of our cities , or investment capital which would allow a cutting edge industry to develop in Saskatchewan rather than Idaho , or a cultural figure who has not had to make it in the US ( Bryan Adams ) or the UK ( Conrad Black ) before the person is taken seriously at home . |
10 | Having waited so long to hear from the ‘ one man ’ who knew what had happened , when he appeared they could do nothing but gaze on him ; having made him into a celluloid star , there was no reason at this point to spoil it , and make him real . |
11 | As far as I know , there are no other examples of ex GWR design main line engines having made it along the North Wales coast , and I for one will follow with interest the happenings of February 29th 1992 . |
12 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
13 | Gustave would have made me into a hermit had he been able : the hermit of Paris . |
14 | The interesting question is , under today 's restrictions , just how many of America 's great leaders of the past would still have made it to the White House . |
15 | Major may have made it to the White House before Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand , but that does not mean he is regarded as being more important than either of them . |
16 | Given the current moral climate , just how many of the great American presidents would have made it into the White House today ? |
17 | For a start Albert the Thief would not have made it through the membership committee . |
18 | North also said that biblical verses were brought up in conversation , though they do not seem to have made it onto the surreptitious tape . |
19 | In reality Goldie is a shrewd operator who is proud to have made it to the top on her own merits . |
20 | Although Woodie had given this explanation pretty often , he was surprised to have to make it to a child of six . |
21 | The bothy was in Pat 's family , and they 've made it into a lovely home . |
22 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
23 | We agreed that a hospital was very much like a ship , and being under fire had made her like a man of war . |
24 | After she had made me into a clown , she laughed in a very satisfied way . |
25 | They had made him into a gunman . |
26 | He did not write well because he had learned his letters late in life and , though Lucille had made him into a much better reader , he was still clumsy with a pen or pencil . |
27 | Joseph had made it through the gate , but was cornered by the populace in an alley . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
30 | 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 . |