Example sentences of "he [verb] manage [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the pressures of his work , he has managed to give up smoking . |
| 2 | A somewhat lonely figure , often mocked for his retreats to the Kalahari or the Hebrides , he has managed to tap popular concern about the environment , education , and racial disadvantage . |
| 3 | Until now he has managed to push bills through the National Assembly , even though his Socialists are in a minority there , by making little deals with the conservatives or with the Communists . |
| 4 | He has managed to remain popular and reformist — despite criticism from a vocal , if not powerful , opposition — by getting ordinary people involved . |
| 5 | Since then , unlike the Shah , he has managed to remain the spiritual leader of his people . |
| 6 | At one time it was feared that the highly-rated midfielder , who attracted an unsuccessful £1.3m bid from Crystal Palace at the time of the Marco Gabbiadini transfer in September , would need an operation , but he has managed to recover thanks to special exercises under the close supervision of club physiotherapist Steve Smelt . |
| 7 | That he has managed to carve out such a successful photographic career for himself is extraordinary when you consider that he spent the first 12 years of his working life as a bricklayer . |
| 8 | The genius of the football supporter is that he has managed to convert something as unappetizing and unpromising as an English football season into something from which he can take pleasure . |
| 9 | Mr Lapointe defends the use of ivory money saying that he has managed to bring in funds from such sources at the direction of government members of CITES . |
| 10 | Yet one of Carreras 's most attractive features , apart from the splendour of his singing , is the way he has managed to avoid any disingenuous taint of backing modestly into the limelight . |
| 11 | One of the lads is proud of the fact that he has managed to avoid doing any writing for the past year or so ! |
| 12 | I admire the way he has managed to build up such a successful salon network and still produce creative , beautiful and commercial looks every season . |
| 13 | By exempting pension funds and unit trusts from income tax on trading profits from futures and options dealings , he has managed to clear up an uncertainty that has kept many investing institutions shy of London 's derivatives markets . |
| 14 | Mosley 's comments suggest that he has managed to supervise a compromise deal in the corridors of power involving Frank Williams and Flavio Briatore , the boss of the Benetton team , who had firmly opposed Williams 's late entry for the championship . |
| 15 | It has been particularly difficult for him because the Government have two of their placemen on the council , but he has managed to keep fighting though the council has this deadweight of government lackeys . ’ |
| 16 | By buying his fish small and young he has managed to keep several species together successfully . |
| 17 | Despite that he has managed to keep a group of people around him who have a loyalty both to him and to the company . ’ |
| 18 | We would all like to hear about a far larger programme than any he has managed to announce since the Government came to office ; otherwise , they stand convicted of hypocrisy and bad faith . |
| 19 | And somehow , from the warmth we all feel for the soundtracks of our adolescence and the prevalent loathing some of us feel for the current torpor of the charts , he has managed to fashion something comically incendiary . |
| 20 | If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values . |
| 21 | ‘ But unlike me , he has managed to land the type of player my teams always lacked — a 25-goals a season striker . |
| 22 | Blanche does , though , feel great affinity towards Mitch as he has suffered a great loss like Blanche 's , but unlike her he has managed to rebuild his life . |
| 23 | He was an old hand at knowing how to steal his audiences ; he 'd managed to do it with Hanna Brunner last year and she was experienced . |
| 24 | Even when the audience could n't see her because he 'd managed to move across and mask her , holding centre stage for himself , they could still hear that effortless , golden sound spinning round every prism of the crystal chandelier in the middle of the theatre . |
| 25 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 26 | He 'd managed to persuade them to get a message through to British Intelligence : the words ‘ Prime Minister ’ and ‘ Cadogan Square ’ . |
| 27 | Once she had written , another decision would have been taken , and he would tell them in the office that they were having a stab at Italy this year , he 'd managed to track down a villa in Tuscany . |
| 28 | He 'd managed to track her down on the Friday evening , waiting for several minutes as she was summoned to the communal phone in the hall where she was now a deputy warden . |
| 29 | Before he 'd left he 'd managed to say to her quietly , ‘ Do n't worry so much , Mo , and do n't let religious scruples worry you either . |
| 30 | In which case there would be no capital for him to start up again other than Tommy 's back pay and a few pounds he 'd managed to save himself . |