Example sentences of "[adv] managed [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the time when the dinosaurs dominated the daytime economy , our mammalian ancestors probably only managed to survive at all because they found ways of scraping a living at night . |
| 2 | Scientists have only managed to find at most seven wolves , and there is no evidence that pups were born in 1982 . |
| 3 | For twenty-five years Britain took little interest in the outside world and even managed to remain at peace with France . |
| 4 | The steward passed by again and Donna even managed to smile at him . |
| 5 | In Piagetian terms they assimilated the language to what they knew , yet managed to preserve at least part of the meaning . |