Example sentences of "made it [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he allowed get clear and almost made it one one . |
| 2 | Most folk enjoy a day at the seaside … but Hereford 's hopes went out with the tide … they were washed away after only three minutes when Lightbourne made it one-nil … |
| 3 | and you 'd have probably written them off when Leicester won a penalty … it looked more like a slip than a push but Thompson 's kick made it one-nil at half-time … |
| 4 | ‘ Made it myself . |
| 5 | Made it myself , with plums from a tree in another country . ’ |
| 6 | Well not very much unless you made it yourself , you know , if you were , the factories used to have their own erm dances and the Embers , it used to be the Embers then , that 's the place in the Stow , they had danci , yes , they had dancing there and they put on competitions for different things and my son , with lots of others er , did erm a rock and roll thing which needed thirty six hours . |
| 7 | … You made it yourself ? |
| 8 | ‘ He made it himself . |
| 9 | She made it her business to get on well with the steward , and her pleasure to keep Bartolomeo Zorzi dancing to an almost inaudible tune . |
| 10 | He did n't know whether Alice ever thought of it , or whether the trauma had erased it from her mind so that she now believed the version he had formulated , had taken the lie into her unconscious and made it her truth . |
| 11 | She made it her rule that Belfast , the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army , casual atrocities never crossed her lips , not after his last trip away , because the man who had come back to her from Northern Ireland had been frightened of his own shadow . |
| 12 | She hated what her father did and made it her business to spy on him anyway ; a daughter 's revenge on a father who disappointed her . |
| 13 | The success of these women 's societies , which were not formally recognized by the university until 1910 , depended on voluntary support by dons and their wives : Bertha Johnson made it her life 's work . |
| 14 | An older woman officer made it her business to tell her when she had done wrong , and she admits to at least one incident she seriously mishandled . |
| 15 | If she was addressing young people she made it her business to acquaint herself with their interests . |
| 16 | She made it her business to find out . |
| 17 | The rewards of motherhood made it her main source of self-esteem and satisfaction . |
| 18 | It was the ‘ small ’ things at Uppark that Meg saved and cherished that made it what it so uniquely was — the chair covers , the blankets Prinny pulled up to the portly royal chin , the original wallpapers in the attics where this quiet , remarkable woman worked to such effect . |
| 19 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |
| 20 | You made it what it is . |
| 21 | What made it what it feel as though you 'd been walked over ? |
| 22 | And the scope of that work I had enrolled all the the lady workers both on the confectionery side and the dispatch side and that made it what you would term as a closed shop . |
| 23 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 24 | Unlike the Greek historians , they made it their business as patriots to present a comprehensive survey of their country 's past . |
| 25 | The French quickly took the town of Killala and made it their headquarters . |
| 26 | Most people in the district made it their business to find out all about newcomers , who were kept under fairly strict scrutiny before they became accepted . |
| 27 | One or two of my friends made it their business to send me the cutting from the Paternoster Review . |
| 28 | The wretched state to which the company has been brought is nevertheless a tragedy , a tragedy for all the towns in America and across the world where IBM was until recently the biggest employer , a tragedy for all its surviving employees , who now have to operate in an environment pervaded with gloom and a sense of failure , a tragedy for all the data processing managers that made it their business to know all that could be known about the company and its products and culture , who now find their hard-earned knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset . |
| 29 | No wonder the Twelve made it their priority , and the nameless missionaries of 8:4 took it as their great weapon . |
| 30 | Abbey National rose 14p to 365p as brokers made it their favourite for a bid from Lloyds Bank . |