Example sentences of "made [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 2 | ‘ Angry though he 's made me in the past , he is a good lad . |
| 3 | I stress that we have made them in the most constructive vein possible . |
| 4 | The players owe a debt to the club and those long-suffering fans who have made them among the best paid in the game . |
| 5 | Perkin had made none of the classic mistakes . |
| 6 | Made one at the same time together . |
| 7 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 8 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 9 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 10 | For a start Albert the Thief would not have made it through the membership committee . |
| 11 | Joseph had made it through the gate , but was cornered by the populace in an alley . |
| 12 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 13 | The jobless total has risen by forty four percent in a year : just around the corner from grail engineering evidence of firms which have n't made it through the recession , and empty industrial units where firms have yet to try . |
| 14 | Silvikrin may not be the first to introduce a two-in-one shampoo and conditioner , but they have certainly made it worth the wait . |
| 15 | North also said that biblical verses were brought up in conversation , though they do not seem to have made it onto the surreptitious tape . |
| 16 | Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | The interesting question is , under today 's restrictions , just how many of America 's great leaders of the past would still have made it to the White House . |
| 21 | Only nine people have made it to the top in winter — and one died on the way down . |
| 22 | So far only a small number of women have made it to the top . |
| 23 | They 'd all gone over the side , singing Johnny Lydon 's hit ‘ Who Do You Think You Are Kidding , Mr Galtieri , ’ and 98% of them had n't made it to the beaches . |
| 24 | In reality Goldie is a shrewd operator who is proud to have made it to the top on her own merits . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |
| 27 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 28 | ‘ You were lucky to make it to the lav , ’ observed Lydia , meaning that she was very grateful that Betty had made it to the lav , since one of the rules is that the afflicted person does not mop up her own vomit and Lydia was absolutely no good at doing this . |
| 29 | Since its inception in 19894 , women have made it to the shortlist , but no further . |
| 30 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |