Example sentences of "made it to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in fact they never made it to the man 's house in the country that night , because Boy made him stop the car twice more . |
| 2 | He survived Auschwitz and made it to the US , but died the year after I was born |
| 3 | CINDERELLA made it to the ball — and just often enough to avoid her tennis return from becoming a pantomime farce . |
| 4 | Some of us were bright and early to breakfast on Saturday morning and even more made it to the opening ceremony by the President in the Physics Lecture Theatre . |
| 5 | We finally made it to the road and sped along towards the village in a cloud of dust , the three of us crouching low in the jeep . |
| 6 | She just made it to the bathroom in time , before she parted unceremoniously with the contents of her stomach , then hung weakly against the side of the washbasin , more wretched and humiliated than she 'd ever felt in her life . |
| 7 | Juliet stood staring at him as he made it to the kitchen chair . |
| 8 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 9 | Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way . |
| 10 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 11 | Next Wednesday , 11 women who made it to the top will speak on success and motivation for women at Women Who Win , a major conference at London 's Institute of Directors ( for details ring 071 839 1233 ) . |
| 12 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 13 | climbing the white horses takes anything from three to five hours … routes up cliffs or pitches as they 're called are well mapped out in the mountain guides … and our team have made made it to the top in good time … |
| 14 | In the middle layer is greenish gabbro , molten rock that never made it to the surface of the crust . |
| 15 | And when one made it to the centre circle and started his own sit-in , to Speedie that was like a red rag to a bull . |
| 16 | I finished my fourpenny pint , pushed through the pearly kings and queens , and made it to the door . |
| 17 | It took a further five minutes before Blenkinsop made it to the phone , but to Amiss 's relief , he appeared to be both sober and reasonable : indeed he was giving a rather creditable imitation of a normal club secretary . |
| 18 | But despite the appalling conditions , most crews stayed the course and out of 72 rafts competing , 59 made it to the finish at Chepstow . |
| 19 | And it was n't until the end of the Second World War that the tiny trees made it to the west . |
| 20 | She made it to the staircase , and dashed at random back into the bulk of the house . |
| 21 | ‘ He made it to the Temple of Bel-Shamharoth . ’ |
| 22 | If London did n't go as you 'd hoped — perhaps you never made it to the end — a float will help you put things into perspective and will leave you feeling more positive . |
| 23 | They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey . |
| 24 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 25 | A rabbit dodged between her feet and made it to the hedgerow . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , you made it to the Gala then ? ’ |
| 27 | We made it to the car . |
| 28 | Made it to the spaceport on a student bus . |
| 29 | We made it to the Pastukhov rocks without a break and steered left where the slope steepened considerably . |
| 30 | And he gave me a smacker on the forehead , said he 'd keep me up his sleeve if he never made it to the altar . |