Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] just managed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith only just managed to stop her jaw from dropping at the astuteness of the man when he continued , ‘ Having left Ardis and applied for a job here , you then made a conscious decision to dress down your looks and conceal your figure , though not because of any sexual hang-up ? |
| 2 | Phoebe jerked away and the radiologist only just managed to suppress her irritation . |
| 3 | WC apps : 4 The Americans only just managed to take advantage of the enforced absence of Mexico — banned after fielding over-age players in a World Youth Cup — by winning their decisive qualifier in Trinidad by the odd goal . |
| 4 | But the mare was arching her back and groaning in such agony now that Luke only just managed to keep her on her feet . |
| 5 | The leaders of the Labour Party only just managed to hold the party to a ( common-sense ) multilateralist line on disarmament against increasingly emotional demands that unilateralism , already espoused by the Liberal Party , should become Labour Party policy as well . |