Example sentences of "they could manage " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some older people feel that they could manage at home if there were someone else living in their home , perhaps helping with light care tasks , or just ‘ keeping a watchful eye ’ . |
| 2 | They set out to peak for this particular match , both to erase from their minds the upset in London two years ago and to prove they could manage a good performance after several indifferent ones . |
| 3 | Nevertheless he was fond of Kylie and still wanted to have an evening out if they could manage it despite the attention of the ever-present photographers . |
| 4 | It turned out to be so big that he invited people specially to help eat it , and then it proved so salty that they could manage only a little of it . |
| 5 | In two of the five cases it was the informal carer ( a husband , and a wife ) who refused help , saying that they could manage and did not need assistance . |
| 6 | This was illustrated most illuminatingly by a recent study in which a group of people were asked to eat more than a pound of potatoes each day ( baked in their skins , not fried ) in addition to whatever other food they could manage to eat . |
| 7 | Thirty of them made the trip to Gulfstream Park and the best they could manage was one Irish and one French third place , both well beaten . |
| 8 | The Heineken effect this research has identified is that created by a confiding trusting relationship , which accompanied by appropriate services , achieves more than any other managerial skill they could identify , to encourage elderly people to believe they could manage independent living and avoid admission to residential care . |
| 9 | They know better than anyone that all the badmouthing of men they could manage would not begin to balance the inequality they experience when it comes to the job market — fewer opportunities , low wages , nonexistent child-care facilities and a hopelessly uneven battle to survive if , for example , the father of their children jumps ship and fails to pay any maintenance . |
| 10 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
| 11 | Most men liked , if they could manage it , to collect as many offices as possible , and , having done so , they were forced to use deputies for performing the work . |
| 12 | She expected to take them through the process several times , demonstrating the skills and strategies involved , and gradually increasing the amount which they were able to tackle independently , before they could manage by themselves . |
| 13 | He was not being paid twenty-five guineas to tell people what they could manage to think out themselves for nothing . |
| 14 | Taken that way , the book can be said to have shown the problems of hypothesizing about origins ; and also the problems associated with supposing that animals , men or plants were suddenly created , fully-grown so that they could manage on their own . |
| 15 | The rest joined in with ukeleles , tambourines , whatever they could manage . |
| 16 | They had always done their best to help Eva switch off during her breaks taking her to the Great Barrier Reef , Tropical Tablelands , coast , islands — wherever they could manage . |
| 17 | Little pests until then though , scuffling and squabbling , paddling their bare feet in the sewage channels , hanging about the shop doorways for warmth and anything else they could manage to lay a hand on before the baker or the pork butcher , both mighty men , sallied forth and scattered them like a flock of starlings . |
| 18 | It would make things a lot easier for her — for both of them — if they could manage to end this marriage on a fairly amicable note , instead of in a flood of tension and arguments . |
| 19 | This is not just a showcase for any old star they could manage to drag along . |
| 20 | But a 25th minute penalty from Fry was all they could manage in scoring terms . |
| 21 | Even when they were old and widowed , grandparents often preferred the independence of living on their own , within daily reach of their offspring , as long as they could manage . |
| 22 | Im sure if they could manage to go to some obscure town on the borders of scotland last round , they could manage to ‘ waste ’ 10 seconds on Leeds . |
| 23 | Im sure if they could manage to go to some obscure town on the borders of scotland last round , they could manage to ‘ waste ’ 10 seconds on Leeds . |
| 24 | What was even ‘ funnier ’ was when I went into the car i thought Id switch it to radio 5 , to see how they could manage to report on a different game as usual . |
| 25 | After the interval , all they could manage was a forwards ' try , by McIvor , and it was left to the home scrum-half , Tony Devlin , to notch the only touchdown — in the last minute — with a fine individual effort . |