Example sentences of "just managed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phoebe jerked away and the radiologist only just managed to suppress her irritation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the 1950s , the National Service Army of some 450,000 men with 77,000 in BAOR had just managed to win the anti-terrorist campaigns in Malaya , Kenya and Cyprus . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The caterers worked at full stretch and their kettle just managed to keep pace with the demand for tea . |
| 6 | Herr Bjorn Engholm , head of the opposition Social Democrats , who only just managed to retain an overall majority in his Schleswig-Holstein constituency after an eight per cent drop in electoral fortunes , called for a ‘ national pact of common sense ’ with the ruling Christian Democrats . |
| 7 | Howey has got it off to a T : so far , she has thrown many of her top opponents with it , including Emanuella Pierantozzi , the Italian world title-holder , who only just managed to twist out and avoid a score in the last world championships . |
| 8 | Things continued to go Hearts ' way and a Crabbe cross let Ian Ferguson in again for a back-header that Fridge just managed to collect under the bar . |
| 9 | Such was the confusion that the BBC , who had spent three hours covering the race , only just managed to catch the men 's finish and went off air without knowing the second and third-placed finishers , despite a warning on Friday that such an eventuality was possible . |
| 10 | George Evans just managed to catch the same flight as Morgan and Horowitz , but the last seat available was Economy Class . |
| 11 | She has just managed to scuttle out of its way as it slammed down next to her , but the tip of one of her legs had been trapped and she had been forced to sever it and leave it behind . |
| 12 | Anyway , I got took short Just managed to get into Selwyn 's crapper in time . |
| 13 | Sir David Price , who represents Eastleigh Junction and all stations south , just managed to jump aboard the wagon claiming that the terms of reference of Serpell had been all right , but wrongly interpreted . |
| 14 | Walter Friedman , who was running a hostel in London and who himself just managed to avoid internment , points out : |
| 15 | They had only just managed to get on the vessel in time . |
| 16 | Collapsing off the diving board with laughter at his own joke , Seb just managed to keep the binoculars above the water level . |
| 17 | She 'd just managed to catch a joyously soaked Ethel when a blond man with a flat cap pulled over his straight nose asked her if she 'd like to sit in his Land-Rover . |
| 18 | But the mare was arching her back and groaning in such agony now that Luke only just managed to keep her on her feet . |
| 19 | He died heavily indebted in 1751 and his two sons , Whistler and Godfrey , just managed to keep the estates solvent . |
| 20 | It was a full passenger load ; the tourist class was full and Kevin Ryan had just managed to secure a seat in first class . |
| 21 | SUPERFIT body-builder Bernard Ayre just managed to gasp out ‘ I love you ’ as he collapsed dying in his wife 's arms . |
| 22 | Hendrix had just managed to squeeze his way into the '70s when the Grim Reaper of rock 'n' roll dragged him out of this world , leaving only the man 's music and ‘ wild man ’ image behind for future generations to remember him by . |
| 23 | FULL-ON UK House that just managed to lose the ‘ P ’ word from in front of it . |
| 24 | Exactly why Burton is so interested in Wood is yet to be revealed , but if some of the crankier bits of Scissorhands are anything to go by , he 's just managed to lift himself above that level … |
| 25 | Last year , despite the worst drought for decades , Poland 's economy just managed to grow ; this year industrial output is likely to rise by 3–4% . |
| 26 | Nomura , the biggest , took a 95% drop but just managed to keep in profit . |
| 27 | Realising its error at the last minute , the magazine just managed to insert a back-page acknowledgement of its gaffe but not to correct the offending caption . |
| 28 | Besides all our food , filming and camping equipment , an inflatable boat , two drums of fuel , an outboard motor and two crates of vodka , we had just managed to squeeze a Russian jeep into the helicopter , by deflating the tyres . |
| 29 | where the Carniki Trust is in Dunfermline having just managed to get there on the petrol in the tank erm |
| 30 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |