Example sentences of "make it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | North also said that biblical verses were brought up in conversation , though they do not seem to have made it onto the surreptitious tape . |
| 2 | Paige herself had gone into town to do some shopping and had scarcely made it to the front door when the sound of another car coming up the drive had made her turn . |
| 3 | Finally , assuming that you have made it to the right starting line in plenty of time , wearing the right kit and your race number , and are facing the correct way when the cannon sounds , there is just one last piece of essential advice : do n't panic ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | WHAT DO you do when your image as a bunch of glamorous rock'n'roll animals starts wearing thin , and you still have n't made it into the big time ? |
| 8 | It does n't take the detective skills of Lord Peter Wimsey to track down the novels of Dorothy L Sayers … she 's made it into the top shelf of crime writers . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , the Lerwick side did n't make it past the second round . |
| 10 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
| 11 | The model should make it through the inverted position , but will lose lots of speed in the process which can cause any number of effects during the inverted climb phase . |
| 12 | Maybe I 'll make it through the next couple of weeks , after all . |
| 13 | I 'll never make it through the three weeks in one piece ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ To be honest , I could n't even say when I 'm going to be back but I 've got to realistically think I wo n't make it for the European Cup . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 18 | I would have to wait until Mum and Dad went out to the pub so we could n't make it to the first . |
| 19 | Are Oxford for the drop , can Swindon make it to the premier league play-offs ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is a religiously-guarded principle that small clubs can still make it to the top flight . |
| 22 | FGTJ are distributed by Rio , which means this 12″ should be available in your local Our Price but wo n't make it into the independent charts . |
| 23 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If he sets his mind to it he could make it in the cross-channel game , ’ says Scottish goal scoring ace Derek Cook , who himself will pose a considerable threat to Ards . |
| 26 | Later on , his mother hoped , when William married and set up a household in his turn , he would make it like the royal one , a model of harmonious order . |
| 27 | In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting . |
| 28 | Unlike Ted , he had risen rapidly up the ranks , was voted Rookie of the Year in 1987 , made it into the Top 16 at the end of '88 , and was tipped to become a challenger for the world title . |
| 29 | Super Mario Land by the Ambassadors Of Funk featuring MC Mario made it into the Top 10 in November . |
| 30 | 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 . |