Example sentences of "managed get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who had the responsibility of marking Chris Waddle managed to get forward throughout the game , the first time after 12 minutes when he stole into the box to rattle the Wednesday woodwork . |
| 2 | They managed to get away when they persuaded the man to stop for baby food . |
| 3 | The resulting battle continued for six hours and both sides suffered severely , though the Mars and Bellone managed to get away unchallenged next morning carrying various prominent fugitives . |
| 4 | Eventually he managed to get away to the continent , and when he was restored to the throne nine years later , the story of the King 's narrow escape seized the public imagination . |
| 5 | More surprising , to me , about the present sorry situation , is how the old regimes managed to get away for so long with presiding over such a ragbag and still getting all that advertising ! |
| 6 | He managed to get away to the other side of the ring but Grant , who calls himself The Terminator , slashed away with both hands , forcing the stoppage . |
| 7 | The papers paid attention to the detail of the knives and sawn-off shot guns he used to threaten and wound his victims , the hood he used to disguise his appearance , his ‘ lair ’ and other related aspects of how he managed to get away with his exploits . |
| 8 | I took to sleeping in all my clothes in my sleeping bag , and managed to get away with not undressing for ten days . |
| 9 | I managed to get away but , ’ he paused and touched the scar on his cheek , 'they left me with a memento . |
| 10 | But three days later when he managed to get away without anyone suspecting his real purpose in skimming down south , and Jezrael lay weakly fretting until he got back , Ember could only whisper , ‘ The Company must have got him . |
| 11 | I managed to get away . ’ |
| 12 | Quite affluent , the newcomers entertained , although Mr Thompson managed to get away at nights , robbing houses across London . |
| 13 | " The subsequent court case was heard at Lewes when the boat 's owner pleaded guilty , but his accomplice pleaded ignorance and managed to get away without a prison sentence , his excuse being that once he realised what was happening he felt obliged to remain on board as it would have been dangerous to leave the owner alone to handle the boat with a load of passengers . |
| 14 | ‘ I managed to get away a touch early , ’ the endocrine specialist said as the car slid out of the parking bay and into the main driveway , then wound through the open , grassy grounds to join an arterial road that ran along the winding Brisbane River . |
| 15 | ‘ This produced a pretty farcical scene really with us both stopped on the track , but I managed to get away and hang on for second . |
| 16 | ‘ I managed to get away earlier than expected , ’ he replied . |
| 17 | We were hijacked in Nicaragua and managed to get away from that . |
| 18 | He managed to get away but was then attacked again by both Diaz and Walker , said John Evans , prosecuting . |
| 19 | ‘ The fact I managed to get away was mainly due to another local man , Mark Powell , of Linthorpe , who died about four years ago . ’ |
| 20 | The four man gang managed to get away with a £3,000 haul after breaking into Harper and Harper furniture store in Northgate , Darlington . |
| 21 | in fact erm we only managed to get away with it by having the one |
| 22 | I made my way through the crowds to Farr 's in Brown Street , managed to get right up to the entrance and poke my head around the door to see what was going on . |
| 23 | In the closing stages Tony Robertshaw managed to get ahead of Peter Fothergill for the best British place , 2nd . |
| 24 | ‘ He managed to get almost there while I was fighting a rearguard and desperate battle with the bull . |
| 25 | Karen Black , herself blonde and Nicholson 's co-star in Five Easy Pieces fell in love with him , but they never managed to get together . |
| 26 | Erm perhaps when we today , about erm clothing that you managed to get together |
| 27 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 28 | ‘ When I managed to get upright I saw him cocking the gun again , thought he was going to shoot me again and moved towards him to defend myself . ’ |
| 29 | Severus managed to get as far as the Montrose region and perhaps briefly beyond that : tantalizingly , in 1869 labourers on the Duke of Sutherland 's railway extension to Helmsdale and ultimately to Thurso in distant Caithness unearthed a collection of Roman bronze coins in a region never held and supposedly never reached by imperial forces . |
| 30 | Edgar managed to get as far as the door . |