Example sentences of "he have managed [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , unlike the Shah , he has managed to remain the spiritual leader of his people . |
| 2 | ‘ But unlike me , he has managed to land the type of player my teams always lacked — a 25-goals a season striker . |
| 3 | Somehow he 'd managed to trace the block where Pavel lived , and he stood in the stairwell and called her name . |
| 4 | It was on the tip of her tongue then to ask if he had managed to dispatch the papers to whoever they were destined for , but she held back the question before it got uttered . |
| 5 | Tony Finnegan-Butler , chairman of Frinton and Walton Town Council , said yesterday he had managed to persuade the district council to switch the lights on again for a period of four hours at a reduced expenditure . |
| 6 | Now he had managed to install the clip he was not at all sure whether he had done the job correctly . |
| 7 | Within a year of his appointment he had managed to sever the College from the Ministry of Education and had established it as an independent foundation with its own College Council . |
| 8 | He had managed to collect the lawn-mower from the ironmonger 's in the village . |
| 9 | As time went by , he thought he had managed to rectify the situation between him and his wife . |
| 10 | He had managed to dislodge the noose from his neck and save himself by jumping into the freezing water below . |
| 11 | Bill Clough was a small grocer , with a nice little shop in a working-class area , where he had managed to survive the competition from the big chains by being convenient , not outrageously dear , and usually cheerful . |
| 12 | He had managed to reconnoitre the area between the South Foreland and Beachy Head and to study the roads between there and London when he was given away by the careless talk , prompted by malice , of the ambassador 's homosexual secretary , a subsequently notorious transvestite , the Chevalier d'Éon , who later lived as a woman . |
| 13 | He had managed to find the General , but with one eye pointing up at the sky and the other angled down at his nose , there was little scope for effective communication . |
| 14 | After all , he had managed to dismantle the magical aspects of my eidesis and now he began to chew away at the very grist of what he termed my ‘ delusionary apparatus ’ . |
| 15 | With neat skill he had managed to direct the words as much at Coffin as his mother . |
| 16 | After all , he had managed to defeat the system and was in sole command of a small military unit . |
| 17 | Although he had managed to get the Lancaster onto a fairly level plane , it was still pitching forwards and was uncontrollable . |
| 18 | Fran glared at him , cursing the fact that he had managed to get the last word on her programme ! |