Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] only manage " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 2 | ( Apart from the last 2 bleak and miserable years , where I 've only managed to get to about 10 games because of my new secret life as a student . ) |
| 3 | To date I have only managed to work on Objectives 1c , 1d , and 2 , but I think that even this work is significant . |
| 4 | So far , she has only managed to sell around 600 tickets for tomorrow 's charity concert by the Royal Marines at the 1000-capacity Liverpool Philharmonic Hall . |
| 5 | Nick — you 've only managed to talk to Paul Simpson , I think everybody 's gone and hidden themselves . |
| 6 | Right planners , now according to me this is for Thursday , next Thursday week t week one Thursday so homework for Thursday finish writing a list er whoever 's giggling will you calm down of things you believe are important do this in rough and I think we 'd better underline the next bit , bring it to the lesson now , quite seriously if you have only managed to get five or six items at the moment on your list that you think are important , that 's not enough , you really do need to be going for a minimum of ten , and if you ca n't then the next piece of work that we 're going to do in the lesson next week is going to be quite difficult . |
| 7 | and things , job families er , we 've got that already and we 've got , there 's gon na be the computer thing on careers but you see we 've only managed this year to get it brought down from year eleven , somebody who went into this , keeping it very close to myself , to bring it down to year ten they 're actually you know , it 's very , very difficult to let them remove it and I ca n't see that you can then make that down to ninth year just yet . |
| 8 | We 've only managed to reconstruct about thirty seconds of it , but this at any rate will give the impression of the way it was . ’ |
| 9 | Wise Speke 's performance showed that although stockbroking commissions had increased by £400,000 in the period it had only managed to break even . |
| 10 | He had only managed to persuade her to join the company because her husband had recently left her for an older woman and she needed to get away from London . |