Example sentences of "[verb] managed get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-ninth August — the German Army has managed to get itself across the Seine and , according to the news at the Brigade H.Q , 4th Commando Brigade has joined in the pursuit . |
| 2 | Russia 's prime minister has managed to get two big coal mines back to work , but only after a promise that the Russian republic would get control over the mines . |
| 3 | So far COHSE has drawn encouragement from the fact that despite general interest no unit or trust has managed to get a job evaluation scheme off the ground . |
| 4 | Muriel really ca n't abide the sound of pop music , and she has managed to get the club to agree that the music must finish at 10 p.m . |
| 5 | Xhibition 93 has managed to get COSE to agree to a question-and-answer session by application developers and computing managers during the Xhibition Executive Conference in San Jose . |
| 6 | ‘ are significant improvements in watercourses either because one has managed to get a discharger to cause his discharge to cease or to be brought up to a standard where a very significant polluting input has stopped , and there is a corresponding improvement in the overall river system . |
| 7 | Celia has managed to get fresh fish today and she 's cooked it in spices , just how you like it . ’ |
| 8 | During the past four years , and it really has only been with us for that long , desktop publishing has managed to get itself a fairly bad name among the professional graphics community . |
| 9 | Even Francis Fairlie , the man they all joke about because he can never make up his mind to marry or to start a serious career or to buy a house or to do anything else that may define and announce his character to the world — even Francis Fairlie has managed to get himself here ! |
| 10 | Practical PC has managed to get a sneak preview of what 's on the way . |
| 11 | She is a teacher and has managed to get out of school early and does not tell us why she has left . |
| 12 | Inside will be any heroin Jamie has managed to get hold of , a tube and tin foil for smoking , plus needles for shooting up . |
| 13 | Hugh Helps has managed to get a only small proportion of his linseed crop in … what he 's got is soaked through and he 's had to hire in expensive drying equipment . |
| 14 | It was Zoya , a friend from work , asking Anna if she 'd managed to get soap . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought you 'd managed to get out , ’ said Endill . |
| 16 | For a moment or two Billy was too relieved even to ask what he was doing in the house , or how he 'd managed to get in when it was all locked up . |
| 17 | But he 'd managed to get to a phone near the toilets in the operations centre . |
| 18 | I was really upset about that — especially as I 'd managed to get some of the best seats in the house . |
| 19 | She 'd read Shakespeare , Pete had n't ; not unless you counted Julius Caesar at school , which he 'd managed to get through with a lot of patience and a set of Coles ' Notes . |
| 20 | ‘ I expect he was planning to get his job back once he 'd managed to get rid of you … ’ |
| 21 | They 'd managed to get through two whole sentences there without snapping each other 's heads off — she should have known it could never last . |
| 22 | You can both go to hell for all I care , ’ Sarella wondered how it was they 'd managed to get off the subject of the telephone call so quickly . |
| 23 | The whole legion of them from all sorts of different things , you know , there was the , the one about the , the secretary of the , of the club , the secretary of some organization , youth organization , said , in her annual reports , commented on how many young girls they 'd managed to get in the club that year . |
| 24 | When the case comes to trial the inexperienced attorney ( a good lawyer may have managed to get the charge reduced to straight murder ) will be faced by a prosecutor who may well specialize in capital law . |
| 25 | I suppose I would have managed to get through without them , but it 's hard to imagine how . |
| 26 | He doubted whether a male officer could have managed to get Miranda to agree to the ID parade . |
| 27 | Well , you 've managed to get one in , anyway , ’ he laughed . |
| 28 | The only way I 've managed to get carers is to put up adverts in newsagents , and I 've done that twice — And I 've had about 30 people ring up through that , and a lot of them seem pretty good … ’ |
| 29 | For a long time now we 've called ourselves poor , but we 've managed to get along . |
| 30 | The reason I 'm calling is that the lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen has a daughter , Katie , who 's eight , and somehow they 've managed to get hold of some of the videos of your shows with Basil . |