Example sentences of "made it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek .
2 We made it without much trouble , but it was a different story on our return , when the tide had receded causing the swell to break .
3 Two South Wales teams , Thornhill and Newport , made it to one semi-final , and two London teams , Central and Western area office and Islington , met in the other .
4 A more fundamental difficulty with the new examination is contained in the very principle that made it at first sight so attractive — its applicability to the full ability range .
5 She made it with thirty seconds to spare .
6 With the exception of Sandy Lyle and Colin Montgomerie , the other five still all made it with varying degrees of comfort into the final 36 holes .
7 I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump .
8 This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg .
9 Once we made it in four hours , door to beach to door : bury Mum 's feet in the sand , forget they 're there , plunge spade into sand and come close to severing three toes .
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