The bedraggled Syrians who made it ashore walked for a couple of miles through dense woodland and asparagus fields.
For those Chinese who made it ashore undetected, the prosecutors said, the firm arranged plane tickets to New York City and then notified the smugglers so they could be sure to find the immigrants and ultimately collect their fees.
Judging by what some of the people were wearing on the flight over, they would never have made it ashore, and, when we beached in our resort there was a little memorial to those people who had died in quicksand because they weren't wearing the right shoes (the sign was written in the local script, which is like no other script on earth so don't take my word for it).
Although the supporting ships came under heavy fire, the troops made it ashore.
(Sadly, many -- way too many -- never made it ashore or reached French soil safely).
These weapons could easily have obliterated any U.S. invasion force before it ever made it ashore, making all-out nuclear war all the more likely.
Many half-tracks, jeeps and trucks floundered in deep water; those that made it ashore soon became jammed up on the narrowing beach, making easy targets for the German defenders.
Although the number of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean was the highest ever recorded in a single year, the percentage who made it ashore safely was also a record-high.
Nineteen months after the 950-foot-long ship slammed into rocks off this Mediterranean island and came to a precarious rest on two granite outcrops, the captain, Francesco Schettino, is on trial on charges of manslaughter in the deaths of 32 people who never made it ashore on the night of Jan . 13 , 2012
I had an extremely short window of time to get ashore and make some photographs.
