Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] managed [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman should give some credit to that health board and every other health board in Scotland that has managed to increase the numbers of patients treated . |
| 2 | Paul Bodin says he 's been lucky … he 's been in the right place at the right time and has managed to take the chances … |
| 3 | The fact that three of these families had been moderately wealthy in Palestine and had managed to acquire the same social status in their exile — that they behaved and looked like millions of middle-class couples in Europe , or indeed in Israel — only compounded my error . |
| 4 | The embarrassing reality was that Burrows had proved more wily than his pursuers had given him credit for , and had managed to give the S.O.U. the slip . |
| 5 | Huy knew something about papyrus , having spent most of his life writing on it , and had managed to convince the man that he knew how to make it , without giving away too much of his true background . |
| 6 | She continued to go to the shop and had managed to clear the backlog of work and correspondence . |
| 7 | He had taken the full force of the fall but had managed to control the descent well enough to make a controlled crash landing . |