Example sentences of "make [pron] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , the Lerwick side did n't make it past the second round . |
| 3 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 4 | Maybe I 'll make it through the next couple of weeks , after all . |
| 5 | Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | I would have to wait until Mum and Dad went out to the pub so we could n't make it to the first . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log . |
| 11 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
| 12 | It was the final ignominy in the short , troubled history of the club that nearly made it to the First Division . |
| 13 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
| 14 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
| 15 | Of the leading English contenders , Peter Marshall , Chris Walker and Del Harris made it to the last 16 . |
| 16 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 17 | Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance . |
| 18 | making them for the next morning . |
| 19 | As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’ |
| 20 | The Queen Mother is of course impeccably bred , though she 's failed to make it to the last 3 Chelsea Flower Shows and looks as if she 'll remain at home again this year . |
| 21 | Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup . |