Example sentences of "manage [verb] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , on the other hand , they manage to hang on inside the uterus , they may be born successfully at full term three or six weeks later . |
| 2 | It is not yet known how so many horses managed to stray on to the road which was a quarter of a mile from their paddock . |
| 3 | One , from a McKeever header , was particularly outstanding , the Duns keeper throwing himself to his right and managing to hold on to the ball . |
| 4 | Two questions — how did you manage to get on with the people in this house ? |
| 5 | Dazed as I was , I managed to roll on to the floor and crawl under the table as people crowded over to watch what they thought was a fight . |
| 6 | I refer , of course , to the discreet advertisements in the quality press , people mouthing fatuously ‘ Oh Barries ’ , when they see what shirt you 're wearing , the flyers Mercer manages to insinuate on to the information desks in some of the major London hotels , and so on and so forth . |
| 7 | By the time he had managed to crawl on to the bed , dragging such scarves as he could find to shield his eyes , for the curtains were only flimsy cotton of a summer rented house , all annoyance , all regret for the wasted day , all intentions , all straining for activity , was gone , absorbed into the panic that connected — as if there was a piston rod — his throbbing head , the lights crossing behind his eyeballs and his churning stomach . |
| 8 | Defries , Johannsen , Ace and Daak had managed to climb on to the top of the pod 's nose . |
| 9 | One of the ‘ leaders ’ even managed to climb on to the roof of government buildings , where he desecrated the state flag . |
| 10 | While Chancellor Kohl 's CDU-CSU alliance holds 309 of the 652 seats , far more than its closest rivals , the Social Democrats , who have 239 , it could not govern without the support of Hans Dietrich-Genscher 's FDP — which is why Genscher has managed to hold on to the post of Foreign Minister for so long . |
| 11 | Some countries like Malaysia have , however , managed to hang on to the advantages of being early recipients of such investments by virtue of their installed base of experienced workers who could help attract later entrants . |