Example sentences of "we [verb] manage " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their enterprise began as a wholefood store — ‘ we had very little stock but all those years ago we did manage to get organic Basmati rice ’ — with a little tearoom at the back and a Malaysian feast once a week . |
| 2 | There were a couple of numbers in the set where we could stretch out if we wanted to , but we did manage to keep a nice , loose feel in everything . ’ |
| 3 | England did n't quite make it in the Rugby World Cup but we did manage to fight rival bids from the likes of Sweden , Austria and Canada to host the prestigious Hair Olympics '94 . |
| 4 | The girls were very bright with one nine-year-old working on her machine from six in the morning to six at night — so we did manage to make some progress . |
| 5 | It 's hard to figure out what exactly is happening with Hunter Systems Inc , Palo Alto , California , since nobody 's returning phone calls : we did manage to find out that its venture capitalist Technology Funding Venture Partners IV in San Mateo , California bought back Hunter 's debt at that auction staged last week ( CI No 2,147 ) — presumably no money really changed hands , and it now owns all of Hunter — but is the company still in business ? |
| 6 | We did manage to cut the angles needed for a six-sided frame , but found the manual 's description of the formula to find the lengths of frame rather too brief . |
| 7 | Even if we did manage to overpower them we could be putting her life in danger . |
| 8 | ‘ We did manage to achieve Dalek eye contact with our actors by devising a kind of iris round for one of the cameras which gave you a point-of-view shot from the Dalek . |
| 9 | We manage we did manage , well w we managed , and we was able to g have our week 's holiday a year . |
| 10 | After seven days of climbing up and down the cliff , we did manage to film the fox , amid thick flurries of snow , as it nosed among the nesting ledges , picking up leftovers — a sequence which will last about two minutes on the screen and took some 56 hours to film . |
| 11 | But we did manage to get the contract from him after . |
| 12 | Erm , it became very clear that that , that bid erm , was in fact , at an early stage , that that bid was not , did not have a realistic chance of being successful , so as , as you know Chairman , when you went on the delegation to see er , Mr in London , actually at that meeting , er , the members of the delegation said to the Secretary of State , well , we recognize , Secretary of State that it 's the wrong area , what we 'd like to really argue for is a bid for the urban core out in Browsley , erm , in , at the end of the day , we did n't even quite get that , but what we did manage to get was objective two status for the urban core of Telford still , and I think that was probably against the odds . |
| 13 | We did we did manage to recruit nine during the year but we lost er four by death as Kerry has mentioned , three by removal or one or two elderly people moving into er sheltered or into homes and things like that where they 're no longer contactable , and there were ten lapses making a total of seventeen that we lost er as against nine new members recruited , which meant that we have a nett have a nett loss of eight from a hundred and four to the present total of ninety six . |
| 14 | ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine . |
| 15 | the dinner organization was better cos we did manage to get seconds out to those that wanted it . |
| 16 | I do n't know you know it 's er it er we do manage and of course what breaks er people 's spirit is I mean we we know we do n't get the money we should be having . |
| 17 | ‘ And if we do manage to land all the players we are thinking off we could have the best Queen 's team since the early 80s . |