Example sentences of "[adv] managed [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 2 | They somehow managed to persuade the owners , apparently it was and it was and nobody else had ever been allowed in this place not even erm historians who write about famous buildings , even they had been refused access ! |
| 3 | Our players were magnificent in defence in the second half and we somehow managed to keep the Irish out ’ — RICHARD GACHES ( Thurrock captain ) after the shock defeat of London Irish in the Pilkington Cup third round . |
| 4 | After recently ditching their long-time manager ANTHONY BOGGIANO , they somehow managed to attract the attention of self-styled svengali SIMON NAPIER-BELL ( better known for managing MARC BOLAN and WHAM ! among others ) . |
| 5 | But there was all the experience and help of Ann Scott Jones who somehow managed to make the lonely job of the Usherette/Narrator come to life , and the magic of Hildegarde Bechtler , the designer , turning the Tron into a real ‘ Forties cinema with help from the hardpressed stage manager , Gibby , and somebody 's wonderful collection of cinema architecture bric-a-brac and memorabilia . |
| 6 | I finally managed to push the huge animal away and backed into a corner for safety . |
| 7 | With a lot of effort she finally managed to close the left-hand door and bolt it into place , then pushed the arm against the dead man 's chest and forced the other door over , sliding the remains of a file through two loops where the handles had once been to keep it shut . |
| 8 | And I said he finally managed to pluck the guts up to tell me last , plucked the courage up to tell me last night and Andy 's eyes light up and I just said erm and I said |
| 9 | The regulars and the heavy mob from Fleet Street arrived and we just managed to catch the last train to Cambridge . |
| 10 | We had barely forty minutes there , but we still managed to walk the whole huge complex , even climbing to the top of the smaller Pyramid of the Moon . |
| 11 | However , he still managed to keep the weapon pointing loosely in his direction . |
| 12 | Just as he was about to travel to Paris in November , to open a book exhibition and make a speech at the Bibliothèque Nationale , he caught a heavy cold which turned to bronchitis with congestion of the lungs ; a nurse was called in and he took a course of penicillin , but he still managed to make the journey . |
| 13 | As we understand it , nothing has changed in Japan but it still managed to make the news and push the share price higher , so that it ended the month in much the same place as it began . |
| 14 | Though the Dwarfs were forced to live in a virtual state of siege , they gradually managed to clear the Night Goblins and other evil creatures out of the upper levels . |
| 15 | He also always managed to see the good side of a person , and would defend them as he saw fit ( ie Rodolpho ) which shows a very christian type of behaviour . |
| 16 | However , he always managed to get the team to wherever they wanted to go despite the problem . |
| 17 | Williams also managed to induce the highly revered former cricketer , Learie Constantine , into becoming the chairman of the movement . |
| 18 | It also managed to take the Famous People Playing On Our Record concept to new and unlikely levels . |
| 19 | He also managed to secure the transfer of Mike Sadler from the LRDG to act as chief navigator . |
| 20 | We eventually managed to reconcile the figures , when we took into account the large number of people who had volunteered to serve on regular engagements in order to participate , but who had been trained as territorial soldiers . |
| 21 | She eventually managed to raise the alarm by crawling out on to the road and stopping a passer-by . |
| 22 | She eventually managed to get the salmon to the bank , and it turned on its side amongst the stones , gasping . |
| 23 | He even managed to delay the founding declarations on Saturday , despite being whistled and booed from the hall . |
| 24 | We even managed to get the disks out of the country , via the British Embassy in Baghdad . |
| 25 | She even managed to convince the man that she 'd been sent by Roman to inspect the goods . |
| 26 | He even managed to reform the British judiciary . |
| 27 | He then managed to increase the club 's fee-paying members , from 6,000 to 22,000 , and bargained with the local council to rent the stadium for the princely annual sum of one peseta . |
| 28 | Promoter Jon Nicholls again managed to bring the cream of Irish music to Australia and New Zealand for the festival . |
| 29 | During the last lesson she attended — about seven months ago — she actually managed to get the round peg into its correct hole . |