Example sentences of "[pers pn] manage [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's probably because of Grizedale Forest in the Lake District that I manage to make a living as a sculptor . |
| 2 | Eventually , after knocking my pan in , and doing my nut generally till I was blue in the face I manage to get a Response out of Annemarie Barr . |
| 3 | I manage to earwig a conversation between , and I kid you not , two members of Napalm Death . |
| 4 | You know at Christmas and then I I managed to save a bit in the Post Office with that . |
| 5 | I managed to grab a seat , or a seatette , for what I still regarded as a trip to Bangkok ( that is , a trip to your auntie might take , not Timothy Leary ) . |
| 6 | After what seemed an interminable period of tiptoeing down the road I managed to hitchhike a lift on the roof of a logging truck . |
| 7 | ‘ But I managed to get a shilling for the horsehair chair , with the bed thrown in . ’ |
| 8 | I managed to get a leave roster for you all . |
| 9 | It was down to the practice ground in the gloom for Jack and myself but I managed to get a message to Sally to meet me an hour later than planned . |
| 10 | I managed to get a charity bursary , which allowed me to take a degree at London University . |
| 11 | I managed to get a copy of it before it hits the shops . |
| 12 | With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village . |
| 13 | ‘ Last year in London I managed to get a massage within 10 minutes of finishing . |
| 14 | Luckily I managed to get a job with a small fit-up touring company — playing small theatres in the provinces , living in digs , away from the spotlight and very badly paid . |
| 15 | Some of the sailors and I managed to get a boat into the water , and we rowed away to look for land . |
| 16 | I managed to get a spot with my back to the wall . |
| 17 | ‘ In part , I think it was that Brian Eyre and I managed to establish a way of working together so that the potential for internal conflict was minimised . |
| 18 | I managed to win a couple of quid on Deano to score the first goal , at odds of 7–1 . |
| 19 | I managed to avoid a lot of it by having some tasks of my own . |
| 20 | Eventually I managed to find a page torn from a local bus timetable which showed the Province of Parma . |
| 21 | Before I went , though , I managed to have a word on the side with the lass . |
| 22 | Not till the early 430s , at the acme of her power , did she manage to establish a presence at Amphipolis , and its capture by the Spartan Brasidas in 424 was one of her most damaging losses in the Archidamian War , the responsibility , if not the fault , lying at the door of the historian Thucydides , who was commanding in the area . |
| 23 | ‘ How did you manage to stay a virgin , Luce ? ’ |
| 24 | Somehow she managed to attend a game of Rugby League . |
| 25 | Sometimes she managed to sell a story to a magazine , and then there were cakes for tea . |
| 26 | Nurse though she was , and even though she had been giving blood fairly regularly for several years now , Belinda never liked to watch the bag fill , so she managed to hold a magazine in her left hand . |
| 27 | A strong swimmer , she managed to reach a rock jutting above the water , and there she stuck ; it would have been suicidal to attempt to swim through the rapids to either shore . |
| 28 | How she managed to find a smile for Ivo when she saw him waiting for her in the foyer , she did n't know . |
| 29 | Several emotions battered her at once then , so how she managed to find a voice that was as cool as his she would never know . |
| 30 | Somehow she managed to improvise a tune on the piano , and the girls , with their natural sense of rhythm , adjusted to the new instrument without making the transition too obvious . |