Example sentences of "if [pron] did manage " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 2 | But if you did manage to get her back with her husband again , I 'm sure she 'd end up forever suspicious , bitter and soured . |
| 3 | If you did manage to open one , it would turn out to be full of dead leaves . |
| 4 | Even if we did manage to overpower them we could be putting her life in danger . |
| 5 | The claws on the crane did n't seem to close properly so that , even if they did manage to get a grip on a tube of sweets or a pink plastic comb , the prizes always slipped out again as soon as the crane started to lift them . |
| 6 | He often wondered what he would do if he did manage to catch him . |
| 7 | " No , I do n't think we should pay too much attention to Regiomontanus or Johann Müller , or whatever it was he called himself , " laughed the priest , " even if he did manage to forecast a comet or two . " |