Example sentences of "managed [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For two weeks they managed to evade the press . |
| 2 | It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday . |
| 3 | Charlton 's Alex Dyer managed to round the defence and score , with 5 United players between him and the goal . |
| 4 | The latter managed to sense the way the wind was to blow during the Eighties by anticipating the various forms of emerging Neo-Expressionism . |
| 5 | Last year , surfing on a wave of resentment against Texas , they managed to cancel the SSC in the House of Representatives , though it was saved in the Senate . |
| 6 | Mr Bull said since Smith was released from prison in April 1990 , after laundering stolen cheques , he had been unable to get a job until he managed to fool the WDA . |
| 7 | Eventually she managed to slide the lid of the pencil-box right home and the newt was hers . |
| 8 | According to the VHP some kar sevaks managed to scale the dome of the mosque and initiate its destruction , a claim firmly denied by the government and the security forces . |
| 9 | Yet Jerusalem managed to remain the centre of Jewish religion . |
| 10 | Dot managed to attract the attention of the girl lying in the next bed . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | After a splendid dinner on Friday evening most people managed to find the bar . |
| 13 | He could not be considered a priority case , but officer Ms Jayne Gardener managed to find the bed and breakfast place in Middlesbrough . |
| 14 | ‘ However , the good news is that I managed to find the switch for the air-conditioning . |
| 15 | One Christmas , Mother managed to find the time to make me a dolly , but only because I pestered . |
| 16 | I do n't know how she managed to find the time , but when she got older she also played the organ for the Sunday services at the local Methodist chapel , as well as running the choir practices . |
| 17 | Just once or twice , when he remembered , Busacher wondered how Willi managed to find the time to do all these things , and be Burgermeister , and put in a least a modicum of hours on his farm . |
| 18 | He was of course bound by the Court of Appeal decisions but managed to construe the memorandum of agreement so as to render clause 6 ineffective in fettering the right of the landlord to serve a notice to quit after the landlord had ceased to be a road widening authority . |
| 19 | For the first time the cosmonauts managed to coax the plant arabidopsis , chosen for its brief life cycle of about 40 days , to produce seeds in space . |
| 20 | However , if Ross had been suffering from boredom , he managed to hide the fact very well when , only a few days later , he contacted her at the small London flat she was temporarily sharing with some friends from university , and invited her out to dinner . |
| 21 | When he finally released his grip , Robinson 's hand felt numb but he managed to hide the discomfort . |
| 22 | Between relentless , disjointed images of everything from cowboys and Indians to real-life Vietnam clips and even an off-colour star of a former age , Victor Mature as the Jolly Green Giant , he managed to write the obituary for that totally plastic group , created from nothing as NBC 's teenybop answer to the Beatles and who were a pale shadow in terms of comparative talent . |
| 23 | After a quick wave to Ted Hammond across the crowded floor , she managed to catch the arm of one of the hostesses . |
| 24 | Janice , from her vantage point , managed to catch the eye of a boy to whom she had spoken on the boat , and terrorized , fascinated , he responded to her insinuations and oglings and came over to ask her for the pleasure of her hand . |
| 25 | Over in the blue tent ( the roof of which unceremoniously blew off on Sunday just prior to kick off ) the SMASHING PUMPKINS lived up to their name and managed to smash the MD of Hut Records , their record company , on the head with a flying guitar , courtesy of singer Billy Colgan . |
| 26 | All novices at this form of stock car racing , they managed to provide the competition 's winner in Dave Brittan , a drilling engineer , who beat 15 other contestants . |
| 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 | Edward managed to retrieve the canoe and got it uprighted and then we heard Marge and Jerry on the opposite shore yelling that they were OK . |
| 29 | I 'd also recorded Neil Kinnock 's speech after his count and I managed to freeze the frame on the exact moment when she almost cried as he paid tribute to his wife for her dignity under the onslaught of the tabloid press . |
| 30 | He also managed to secure the transfer of Mike Sadler from the LRDG to act as chief navigator . |