Example sentences of "managed [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I managed to carry through the hijacking 80 per cent . |
| 2 | Even though the ball was , to scale , probably seven foot high it still managed to go in the back of the net . |
| 3 | ‘ Although Owen managed to cope with the problem quite well , Liz got really depressed — which further upset the children . |
| 4 | Blackburn managed to equalise in the last five minutes and won it 3–4 in extra time . |
| 5 | Louis Dersingham managed to drive into the city without seeing a single house built after 1860 . |
| 6 | The ship 's captain , Benjamin Saint Clair , who was among those who managed to swim to the coast , said passengers had apparently panicked during a heavy rainstorm , contributing to the disaster . |
| 7 | Since India 's population grew by nearly a quarter over that period , this means that about 80m people managed to clamber above the poverty line in a decade . |
| 8 | Two of them managed to leap into the empty office as Jekub bowled past . |
| 9 | He managed to attract to the new Achimota college a remarkable principal , Alek Fraser , who had a long record of educating the leaders of society in Ceylon . |
| 10 | But he has told former executives to extract themselves from jobs they managed to find in the Aquino era and hold themselves ready . |
| 11 | From about 1860 the European agricultural sector entered a period of crisis in which the baleful influence of the backward Prussian agricultural system and its links with the politics of the Prussian east were made abundantly clear : the mechanisms which the Junkers managed to hide from the German populace were at last revealed . |
| 12 | The agricultural sector managed to provide for the food needs of Japan 's growing population . |
| 13 | The man managed to disappear in the cellar beneath the kitchen . |
| 14 | All Léonie managed to discover from the postman 's hints was that the priest had had the bones taken away for a quick burial in the cemetery with as few people present as possible , and that people were still visiting the site of the apparitions , waiting to see whether Thérèse would go back . |
| 15 | She had never been quite the calm resolute individual which she managed to appear to the rest of the world . |
| 16 | A Czech cartoon managed to appear in the years of ‘ Normalization ’ with a caption which summed up this perverse process : ‘ Thanks to the continuous development of socialism , we became a developing country . ’ |
| 17 | The Romanians managed to duck round the back and take up the lead as the French extracted themselves from their collision with the pontoon . |
| 18 | They saw a few hares , two of which the tracker managed to shoot for the pot , and there were buzzards overhead sometimes , but that was all . |
| 19 | After making several trips to Headquarters in Lincoln 's Inn and each time letting the bus take her on to Aldgate East , she managed to resign from the movement . |
| 20 | The rest managed to walk into the docks through an unguarded gate carrying one of the dinghys . |
| 21 | ‘ I only managed to walk round the first time , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 23 | Gabriel left the barn , and returned to the ricks , two of which he managed to cover with the heavy material kept on the farm for this purpose . |
| 24 | That was really seen as the crowning achievement , keeping your garden clear of weeds — not what you managed to grow in the space . |
| 25 | She managed to escape to the kitchen on the pretext of having seen an old friend heading in that direction . |
| 26 | That same Heinkel managed to escape to the Firth of Forth , turn , and move back for another attack run . |
| 27 | Luckily he managed to escape into the darkness before being caught . |
| 28 | In January 1945 he was arrested in Krakow by the Gestapo but managed to escape from the transport taking him to a concentration camp . |
| 29 | Even so she managed to escape from the depths and walked the world , enchanted by what she saw . |
| 30 | So even if it managed to escape from the scientists ' clutches in Britain , it could not turn into another exotic pest , like the mink in Britain or the rabbit in Australia . |