Example sentences of "managed [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I managed to carry through the hijacking 80 per cent . |
| 2 | He managed to go to a morning service in church again , the first for seven weeks . |
| 3 | Even though the ball was , to scale , probably seven foot high it still managed to go in the back of the net . |
| 4 | ‘ Although Owen managed to cope with the problem quite well , Liz got really depressed — which further upset the children . |
| 5 | Blackburn managed to equalise in the last five minutes and won it 3–4 in extra time . |
| 6 | Fraser , trying to emulate the success of the jeep raid , managed to drive into a trench , which alerted the enemy defences . |
| 7 | Louis Dersingham managed to drive into the city without seeing a single house built after 1860 . |
| 8 | The ship 's captain , Benjamin Saint Clair , who was among those who managed to swim to the coast , said passengers had apparently panicked during a heavy rainstorm , contributing to the disaster . |
| 9 | Since India 's population grew by nearly a quarter over that period , this means that about 80m people managed to clamber above the poverty line in a decade . |
| 10 | Partly because of French opposition to closer US-European links , the US abandoned this plan at the end of 1964 and in December the Six managed to agree on an important element of the CAP common cereal prices . |
| 11 | I even managed to sit in a chair for a while , not too easy with all the wires though . |
| 12 | Eventually he managed to sit in a chair unaided and began to attend the hospital school , where he operated a computer with a mouth-held drumstick . |
| 13 | Two of them managed to leap into the empty office as Jekub bowled past . |
| 14 | He managed to attract to the new Achimota college a remarkable principal , Alek Fraser , who had a long record of educating the leaders of society in Ceylon . |
| 15 | But he has told former executives to extract themselves from jobs they managed to find in the Aquino era and hold themselves ready . |
| 16 | 22 year old Katherine Monastyrskaya managed to struggle to a road where she was helped to hospital by passers by . |
| 17 | He managed to communicate to a certain extent through gestures and facial expressions , and he could put together short sentences . |
| 18 | From about 1860 the European agricultural sector entered a period of crisis in which the baleful influence of the backward Prussian agricultural system and its links with the politics of the Prussian east were made abundantly clear : the mechanisms which the Junkers managed to hide from the German populace were at last revealed . |
| 19 | Whenever their conflicting playing schedules allowed , these two attractive superstars of sport managed to meet in a blaze of publicity . |
| 20 | The agricultural sector managed to provide for the food needs of Japan 's growing population . |
| 21 | The man managed to disappear in the cellar beneath the kitchen . |
| 22 | All Léonie managed to discover from the postman 's hints was that the priest had had the bones taken away for a quick burial in the cemetery with as few people present as possible , and that people were still visiting the site of the apparitions , waiting to see whether Thérèse would go back . |
| 23 | Another , a business woman , often under considerable pressure , managed to come to an arrangement with her voluble but good-humoured mother , that she could terminate any of their telephone conversations speedily if necessary , without giving offence , simply by saying , ‘ Well , I 'm afraid it 's all action stations here now , so I 'll have to say goodbye ’ ; and it worked remarkably well . |
| 24 | Miki managed to slip in a few ‘ wise words , matey . ’ |
| 25 | She had never been quite the calm resolute individual which she managed to appear to the rest of the world . |
| 26 | A Czech cartoon managed to appear in the years of ‘ Normalization ’ with a caption which summed up this perverse process : ‘ Thanks to the continuous development of socialism , we became a developing country . ’ |
| 27 | The Romanians managed to duck round the back and take up the lead as the French extracted themselves from their collision with the pontoon . |
| 28 | They saw a few hares , two of which the tracker managed to shoot for the pot , and there were buzzards overhead sometimes , but that was all . |
| 29 | After making several trips to Headquarters in Lincoln 's Inn and each time letting the bus take her on to Aldgate East , she managed to resign from the movement . |
| 30 | The rest managed to walk into the docks through an unguarded gate carrying one of the dinghys . |