Example sentences of "manage [to-vb] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I did find her , she always managed to evade me like a will-o'-the-wisp , and then I would lose her again . |
| 2 | How could he do this to her — forever turning up when he was least expected and always managing to catch her at a disadvantage ? |
| 3 | The wang bars on the Elite series were pretty bad , but I managed to find one without a wang bar and it 's actually a good guitar . ’ |
| 4 | Eventually , a couple who had been putting food down for Sadie for about six months managed to trap her in a garage and driveway . |
| 5 | However , the group managed to put itself into a position to take advantage of the surge in bookings which followed the ending of the Gulf war last year and the demise of International Leisure Group . |
| 6 | Or if they do manage to put you in a bedroom , remember that you 've got a whole camera team there , and they usually want to do some extraordinary shot from very close up , so they put you right on the edge of the bed , probably on a board which you 're about to fall off at any minute . |
| 7 | With the help of the dogs , who leapt silently through the snow , George managed to usher them to a barn , where they massed on the sheltered side . |
| 8 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 9 | He was badly shocked and in great pain but managed to steer himself towards a field half a mile from the parachute club at Brunton , Northumberland . |
| 10 | He managed to drag himself onto a ledge to escape the flames and await rescue . |
| 11 | The issue of homelessness is at the heart of the movie but Lane manages to integrate it within a storyline which could quite easily have walked out of a Charlie Chaplin film of 70 years ago . |
| 12 | I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot . |
| 13 | Then Amanda had turned up on her own at Meg 's leaving party , and he 'd managed to monopolise her in a corner of Meg 's kitchen . |
| 14 | Five Thirty have managed to harness themselves into a sound that nods towards the '60s but keeps its arse firmly placed on a '90s seat and its head ensconced in a pretty rock 'n' roll street attitude . |
| 15 | Five Thirty have managed to harness themselves into a sound that nods towards the '60s but keeps its arse firmly placed on a '90s seat and its head ensconced in a pretty rock 'n' roll street attitude . |
| 16 | Now she had fallen in love with a man who infuriated her , and turned her on , and had managed to read her like a book . |
| 17 | He had managed to haul himself into a position where he gave rather more and received rather fewer orders and proceeded to look around to see how he could get out of the insurance office where economic necessity had landed him and where he had learned only a flashy taste in clothes and stationery . |
| 18 | We had managed to squash ourselves into a corner table with two pints of strong winter-warmer beer . |