Example sentences of "make [pron] to 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 | I would have to wait until Mum and Dad went out to the pub so we could n't make it to the first . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Berger said : ‘ He made it to the first corner ahead of me and I tried to hang on . |
5 | It was the final ignominy in the short , troubled history of the club that nearly made it to the First Division . |
6 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Of the leading English contenders , Peter Marshall , Chris Walker and Del Harris made it to the last 16 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |