Example sentences of "managed to hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | HTV 's advertising revenue rose 11.8 per cent to £101.8m , and the group managed to hold on to a creditable market share of 6.4 per cent as advertising has been sucked to South-east England . |
| 2 | Fear spurted up into his mouth but he managed to hold the gaze , eye to eye . |
| 3 | Despite a further weakening of demand , St Ives managed to hold pre-tax profits at £10.1m in the six months to January . |
| 4 | He managed to hold the ball on the putting surface and , two putts later , the last one from six feet , he was on his knees in triumph , or was it supplication ? |
| 5 | So , despite a 17 p.c. fall in volumes in Britain , Blue Circle managed to hold its prices and expects to do so again this year . |
| 6 | She managed to hold down a job as a journalist with a local newspaper , but was finding it increasingly difficult to produce a reasonable standard of work when suffering from PMS , which was sometimes debilitating . |
| 7 | A minute 's silence was observed before the afternoon kick-off , after which a stunned Arsenal managed to hold Wednesday to a draw . |
| 8 | It managed to hold its own yesterday and if it continues to strengthen the pundits reckon we could be due for another prolonged rally in shares in the New Year . |
| 9 | ‘ She looked good , had a great sense of humour and managed to hold things together , ’ said one of the guest celebrities . |
| 10 | David Plange added another try for the home side but Widnes fought back with further scores from Bobby Goulding and Stuart Spruce but the Eagles managed to hold on for victory . |
| 11 | Beaten 18–14 from 14–8 up by Stephen Hendry in this year 's world final , White managed to hold onto his lead this time and take the £70,000 first prize . |
| 12 | With a colossal effort , she managed to hold it there for about ten seconds . |
| 13 | I managed to hold the aircraft straight for a short distance , running on the nosewheel which , luckily , had escaped damage , but as the speed came off the aircraft slewed sharply left and I came to a slithering , steaming halt about 200 metres the other side of the dyke , well off the runway . |
| 14 | For two years , they managed to hold at bay a Roman army , with experienced commanders , well-disciplined troops and extensive siege equipment . |
| 15 | She almost dropped the line in disgust , but managed to hold it and started to swing it back and forth like a skipping rope in wider and wider slow arcs . |
| 16 | Luckily , however , I managed to hold on and we got on to her bed , which I seem to remember was covered with a plastic sheet . |
| 17 | We never did persuade them , but for six valuable hours we managed to hold them on that course far out into the Flores Sea , until finally they came to their senses , noticed the distant and almost invisible shore , and hurriedly tacked towards it again . |
| 18 | PLR was finally enacted in 1979 , after an arduous battle in which Conservative MPs Roger ( now Sir Roger ) Moate and Iain Sproat , together with Labour MP Michael English , managed to hold up its progress by filibustering . |
| 19 | The so- called middle class leaders of the P.N.M. have , up until now , managed to hold on to power , which is extraordinary considering they were ‘ so completely without ideas of any kind ’ . |
| 20 | Nurse though she was , and even though she had been giving blood fairly regularly for several years now , Belinda never liked to watch the bag fill , so she managed to hold a magazine in her left hand . |
| 21 | ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’ |
| 22 | And naturally Elise has n't any money to pay her own way , Leith thought , but , since she did n't want to part bad friends with her mother , she managed to hold back . |
| 23 | Three thousand members of the Sealed Knot have been re-staging the civil war battle in which the city managed to hold off the royalist seige for twenty six days . |
| 24 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |