Example sentences of "manage to get [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you er , send one in , to get it mentioned on the day , well we certainly do our best , er , sometimes , er , the er , anniversaries and the birthdays , not very often , are crowded out by er , any news stories that we may have to bring you , became first and foremost this is a news programme , er reflecting the stories of the day , but generally speaking we manage to get a full list of your dedications in . |
| 2 | The content of their syllabuses was largely , though indirectly , in the hands of the universities , through the local examination boards , and it was assumed that a good school , even if comprehensive , would manage to get a reasonable number of O and A level passes and send a proportion of its pupils on to higher education . |
| 3 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 4 | My two realities were getting this thing done technically to technical excellence , which I was struggling with as I did n't know my stuff so well then , and also , managing to get a good performance out of David . |
| 5 | Celia managed to get a lighted match to the fire . |
| 6 | Whilst at Abu Sueir I managed to get a great deal of tennis but my rugger was curtailed slightly , I played for a scratch side called the Canal Zone but was not allowed to take part in away matches because of the time I would have to spend away from the course due to travelling . |
| 7 | In the street market he managed to get a wilting lettuce for Henry and Murgatroyd , reduced to fourpence . |
| 8 | ‘ I managed to get a full tank . |
| 9 | Programmers Vektor Grafix managed to get a fair amount of graphical speed from the C64 to provide an accurate conversion of the popular arcade machine . |
| 10 | Yes , they were quite an elite band of brothers , but it was possible to break into the circle , and eventually by a stroke of luck and a bit of help from one of Vincent 's crew who took pity on me , I managed to get a short spell of leave relief on HMRC Vincent . |
| 11 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 12 | Nothing daunted , the reactor personnel managed to get an extra pump working by the space-age technique of forcing open a valve and jamming it with a steel plate , though this had the distinct disadvantage of immobilising all of the other safety systems . |
| 13 | During the last lesson she attended — about seven months ago — she actually managed to get the round peg into its correct hole . |
| 14 | Christina helped her , and eventually they managed to get the tiny bikini back into place . |
| 15 | Mr Wilson soon had the situation under control , however , and managed to get the whole school lining up in one of the four corridor approaches to the sports hall . |
| 16 | He manages to get every single person in his organization to pay attention to the smallest detail . |
| 17 | It shares many features with other stories found among many peoples : a spirit or evil demon makes a sudden attack on a traveller at night ; the traveller is quite unprepared , and the demon means to kill him ; nevertheless , in the life and death struggle that ensues the traveller manages to get the upper hand , and before the dawn comes and robs the demon of its power , he extorts from it something of its supernatural strength . |
| 18 | ‘ Folly , somehow we 've managed to get a crossed line here . |
| 19 | We have managed to get a fair way into this chapter on food and diet before mentioning that subject dear to a slimmer 's heart , the calorific value of food . |
| 20 | Gilbert Basset died in 1241 , and Philippa Basset somehow managed to get a quick divorce from Richard by autumn of the next year . |