Example sentences of "we managed [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and during the , I was away actually I was n't there , but er , it was all burnt so I did away with that and we managed to do the bed up somehow |
| 2 | As well as that , we managed to restrict the pay round for the whole of Pearson in the U K to four percent . |
| 3 | We managed to decrease the noise by backing off the low-mid rumble point and the 11kHz hiss by about 13dB , but to attenuate the DI output down to a reasonable level we 'd have had to use a separate DI box , and that means making up a special XLR-to-jack lead . |
| 4 | Eventually we reached the Aru Islands , close to the shores of west New Guinea , where we managed to record the first ever colour footage of the golden-tailed bird in its natural habitat . |
| 5 | As one man , which included several honorary woman , they stumbled backwards as we managed to heave the dog into a sitting position and slide him on his backside the last 20ft to the parcels ' office . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's one of the reasons we managed to sell the idea to the BBC , ’ says Jaqui . |
| 7 | There was no damage done , and in a while , with many helping hands , we managed to push the aircraft back to the airfield . |
| 8 | James Anderson , of Jarrow , asks how we managed to miss the series of disasters at nuclear power stations that occurred in the former Soviet Union during the mid-1990s , causing the flight of tens of millions of people towards western Europe and triggering the ‘ Refugee Wars ’ of 1995–96 . |
| 9 | ‘ We have been lucky that we managed to convert the right strategy into the right results , ’ says Lord Weir . |
| 10 | We managed to bomb the target and overall the raid was very successful . ’ |
| 11 | There was a chase and we managed to corner the prisoner , then I grabbed her and she was returned to custody . ’ |
| 12 | In entertainment I 'd think the reduc cost reductions there were pretty well , er restricted to good housekeeping , but from fine china er , we managed to transfer the , the er , work in the Minton factory to the Knowle Street factory and that allowed us to close the Minton factory and quite apart from the redundancies that entailed , we saved something like two hundred and fifty thousand er , non staff related overhead . |
| 13 | You know we managed to man the gates in working hours and forced the company to shift slate at ungodly hours in the morning , and I think people were impressed that we managed to stick it out . |
| 14 | We managed to salvage the Spotlight feature but my bloody notes had already been printed . |
| 15 | After some months of training , a last-minute panic to obtain a working tandem , and indeed a first ever tandem ride the night before the event , we managed to complete the course . |
| 16 | We managed to survive the crash but after two weeks of lying-low were captured by the Germans . ’ |
| 17 | We could n't do an awful lot because it was er er classed as a luxury business er and so we , we could n't get an awful lot of photographic paper or films or anything of that sort but we managed to keep the connections up with what we could get . |
| 18 | The County Council published a statement saying they would not look favourably on any development , Max Nicholson of the NCC entered the fray and we managed to raise the necessary endowment of £100,000 locally . |
| 19 | After a struggle with the wind we managed to get the meadow looking neat and tidy , tables were loaded on to a dumper and the villagers made for home with their booty . |
| 20 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 21 | It must have been an hour and a half at least before we managed to get the thing out of the water . |
| 22 | We managed to get the kitchen , sitting-room , dining-room and our bedroom in order before his return . |
| 23 | We managed to get the cocoa changed to tea , and abandoned the hard-labour cells . |
| 24 | ‘ We managed to get the battery thing behind the hedge , ’ he said , ‘ and the can 's nearly full . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ It was shattering but well worth while , we managed to get the message across and people were very generous . |
| 26 | It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er |
| 27 | Brownie helper Barbara once more came to the rescue and during the next week brought her daughter 's cassette tape-recorder to my home where , in spite of my nerves and her dim knowledge of recording , we managed to get the music for a small sequence on tape . |
| 28 | So we managed to get the lorry out and I got on the ‘ phone to Bristol University . |
| 29 | Whilst the weather could have been kinder for the photographers wishing to capture the splendid liveries of the trams , both in the sheds and on the extensive outdoor system , we managed to dodge the couple of showers and visited the considerable number of preserved vehicles and small exhibits . |