Example sentences of "[pers pn] manage to get [det] " in BNC.

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1 With a little juggling I managed to get each section of the garment starting with lilac , shading to blue then to a yellowish pink .
2 I managed to get all my work done and still watch some of my favourite programs on the television .
3 ‘ Here , ‘ she said , ‘ I managed to get some soap at — ‘ — The bedroom door opened and Surkov burst in .
4 I managed to get some great photographs and autographs from the Queen of Tennis .
5 She said , ‘ I managed to get some of the information you asked me for . ’
6 I managed to get another breeder to take two of the chicks , but the others will have to be destroyed .
7 If you manage to get both , as I did , sitting of any sort is painful .
8 Hope you managed to get some sort of break over the weekend and that you 're not too behind on schedule — it 'll probably pick up later on in the shoot !
9 Mother was really a good cook but that oven was not exactly reliable — indeed , I do not know how she managed to get such nice things out of it .
10 Her school is very good with time as well and she manages to get most of her work done .
11 Why , have you managed to get another week out ?
12 In fact , one particular evening we managed to get all twenty-one residents across there , plus some of the people from the Lodge and we had a lovely evening .
13 Eventually , and despite the onset of winter weather , we managed to get most of the sequences we wanted , including foxes scavenging on long , lonely stretches of shingle , male foxes pacing out and marking their territorial boundaries , foxes fighting , and cubs in search of their own territories .
14 We managed to get some sugar last month , did n't we , Lilian ? ’
15 Some said they 'd , they 'd be interested in playing , they knew how to play certain things and others wanted to play others and that 's how we started , and in a matter of a year the new headquarters at er Lowestoft was being opened , by the Dutchess of Kent , and we decided that the band was going to play at that one and you can imagine , and it was all ready and they were playing music , but I 'm not sure what , what quality music it was , and blow me on the week before , the band leader , the conductor decided he could n't play because he had a sprained wrist so we were left without a conductor even , but we managed to get another conductor and we played and I do n't know what it sounded like , but the Dutchess of Kent was very kind , she said the music sounded lovely .
16 I was staggered they managed to get such a large mouthful in a relatively small mouth !
17 They managed to get some ones on the sea , but they did have a try erm a lot of them come up with the erm barking up the wrong tree said the dog , you know , things like that with a bit of help .
18 Where 've they managed to get all these vacancies from ?
19 Paul had had some difficulty in prising the really caked bits of spaghetti off the bottom of the pan but , with a light wristy action perfected on Wall 's sausages which burst their skin , he managed to get all but the blackest fragments out .
20 God knows how he managed to get that out here .
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