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

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1 The fact that this at least made it into D & AD 's showcase book of work indicates the kind of thing direct marketeers should aim for if they want to improve their awards performance .
2 I finally made it into Webber Douglas where I finally realised that this was where I belonged .
3 Before landing his role in the super-soap series , Nader was a model who made it into movies .
4 A special light-weight tripod was sent out from the UK ( and after much greasing of palms , finally made it through customs ) .
5 The railway made it worth while for Gustave : he could get to Mantes and back without too much trouble ; and Louise 's complaints perhaps seemed a reasonable price to pay for such accessible pleasure .
6 The railway made it worth while for Louise : Gustave was never really far away , however severe he sounded in his letters ; the next one would surely say that they could meet again , that only two hours separated them .
7 And the railway made it worth while for us , who can now read the letters which resulted from that prolonged erotic oscillation .
8 I blamed Hilda for it , I felt she had taken away the gamble , the risk that made it worth while .
9 Qualified privilege may be claimed if the member of the council making the statement about a person can show that he made it without malice and in pursuit of a public duty .
10 He made it without difficulty on to his raft , swinging it round to join the group he had noticed dropping away to his left ; and was overturned by a breaking wave .
11 Young , chirpy faces to greet me when I finally made it to Raynes Park .
12 She finally made it to university , after which to my regret I lost touch with her .
13 After starting out with a Honda VF500 in ‘ 84 , Bradl made it to factory rider in just four and a half years , making a name for himself on the way as a man bursting with aggression .
14 In books and interviews he has reminded the world that the French Surrealist poet Aragon , having praised Kundera 's excellent novel The Joke in 1968 , and having fulminated against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia — his legs would ‘ refuse ’ to take him to Russia any more — made it to Moscow four years later ; and that another French poet , Eluard , abandoned his Prague friend , the Surrealist Kalandra , to the executioner .
15 The comedian never made it to England again , and was soon to die .
16 However I had no wish to disappoint everyone concerned by postponing by visit to the Palace and , with a lot of help from friends and family I finally made it to London on the great day albeit a shadow of my former self .
17 In 1964 Miles , via Cheltenham , Oxford , and Stroud finally made it to London , and by January 1965 to a job behind the counter at Better Books .
18 Somehow , we made it to Bangkok .
19 This orang-utan actually made it to rehabilitation centre , but the Taiwan Ten — after a jubilant send-off , — were treated less like freed captives than parole-breakers .
20 But she made it to daylight in one hell of a hurry .
21 It had become so difficult that we needed to help each other make it ; everyone who made it to Australia would win a trophy .
22 He made it to grammar school in Woking , leaving at sixteen with enough O-levels to get a traineeship on the local Surrey Advertiser .
23 So many made it onto land only to be turned back by some unforeseen ailment .
24 We made it on time — just — thanks to our car phones .
25 Time was when the South West would be filled with Gloucester boys … only two Paul Holford and Dave Sims made it on Saturday and there was nothing they could do in the first half to stop the north from taking control … a try from Jim Mallinder gave them a 13-6 lead at half-time …
26 Lurgan made it past Bangor 's total of with just three balls to spare , Craig Irwin 's innings of doing most of the damage .
27 I said when you came in we made it at school
28 Zuwaya made it from elements which they knew , enjoyed , celebrated : they recited their genealogies and explained them , they told their stories , made jokes , listened to poems on cassette-recorders .
29 Steve Claridge of Witney made it from start to finish …
30 These were not quack ideas that never made it in practice .
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