Example sentences of "make it [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 Major may have made it to the White House before Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand , but that does not mean he is regarded as being more important than either of them .
32 He then says that Caesar does n't seem to let his emotions speak more than his reason , but ( this is the next six or seven lines ) when ambitious young people are starting out , at the bottom of the heap , they are humble and look up with awe , but once they have made it to the top , they scorn all those below them , who have helped them to get there .
33 I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics .
34 As far as I know , there are no other examples of ex GWR design main line engines having made it along the North Wales coast , and I for one will follow with interest the happenings of February 29th 1992 .
35 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 ?
36 Given the current moral climate , just how many of the great American presidents would have made it into the White House today ?
37 Luke , on the other hand , has made it into the bigtime .
38 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 .
39 He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back .
40 Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him .
41 He heard himself telling a girl that if he had n't made it in the music business by his twentieth birthday , he would kill himself .
42 ‘ You 've only just made it before the final melt . ’
43 Unfortunately , the Lerwick side did n't make it past the second round .
44 But tonight on the Gerry Anderson television show will make it worth the wait .
45 ‘ She said they 'd been helping her to write songs , and sure enough I tried one of them — low string down to D , and top string right down to C — and I got three new songs straight away : Galileo , Virginia Woolf and a ballad that did n't make it onto the record .
46 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 .
47 Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours .
48 Even Cindy can barely make it through the routine .
49 If we could make it through the torrent to the bend ahead …
50 I 'll never make it through the three weeks in one piece ! ’
51 Maybe I 'll make it through the next couple of weeks , after all .
52 ‘ With the right fertiliser Leonardo might make it through the summer , ’ opined Today with vague hope .
53 That would make it off the root directory .
54 They can make their bourgeois war themselves , but they will make it without the workers . ’
55 Did they make it on the premises ?
56 How do you make it with the metal ?
57 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 .
58 ‘ I hope you wo n't be stuck in your bag of ‘ defending ’ the underground ; like the man said , let's make it for the hell of it . ’
59 ‘ 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 .
60 ‘ 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 . ’
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