Example sentences of "they managed [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This enforced poverty made them easier targets for propaganda : if they left with no more than their allowance , they could be portrayed as shabby Untermenschen scuttling away like rats ; if they managed to outwit the system , then they were economic criminals fleeing with stolen goods . |
| 2 | They managed to render the melody , the tune . |
| 3 | There were other lords who also disliked me , and together they managed to persuade the King that I was a danger to Lilliput . |
| 4 | For once they managed to evade the searchlights , dodge the guard-dogs , tunnel under the barbed wire and make it back to the sanctuary of their bunks before Stein and the Stalag Squad knew they were gone . |
| 5 | For two weeks they managed to evade the press . |
| 6 | Suppose , too , that they managed to sell the idea to their tax-payers , who , after all , would have to find the money . |
| 7 | Last year , surfing on a wave of resentment against Texas , they managed to cancel the SSC in the House of Representatives , though it was saved in the Senate . |
| 8 | Finding themselves holding the balance of power in parliament , they managed to introduce the Home Rule Bill of 1886 . |
| 9 | They managed to convince the authorities that the dolphin kills were bad publicity , and that the release of some dolphins would be seen as partial atonement for the brutal killings which had already taken place . |
| 10 | Did they managed to keep the land they had invaded ? |
| 11 | Under the old system editors , writers and printers were technically free from the threat of punishment if , by hook or by crook , they managed to defeat the censor . |
| 12 | They managed to avoid the panning reserved for contemporaries like Bogshed who were termed : ‘ Four twisted misanthropes trying to make a career out of sneering at people ’ by Dave Jennings in the NME . |
| 13 | Alfie Common scored a penalty at Bramall Lane , home of Sheffield United , to give Middlesbrough their first away win for two years and they managed to avoid the drop to the Second Division . |
| 14 | All novices at this form of stock car racing , they managed to provide the competition 's winner in Dave Brittan , a drilling engineer , who beat 15 other contestants . |
| 15 | This time they managed to empty the room without any mishaps and prepared it for Endill 's work . |
| 16 | They managed to remove the tureen almost to the door : until , that is , they discovered the flex was plugged into the wall through a hole in the bar . |
| 17 | Conservative leader , David Walden , says they managed to convey the extent of the County 's problems . |
| 18 | Although somewhat bulky and unflattering , it was not unsuccessful as it blended with the current trend for layered clothes and endorsed the rustic air of a bygone age that other ‘ Laura Ashley ’ clothes were now describing , As they would not consider offering anything that was not made of 100 per cent natural fibres , they managed to complete the range by producing dresses in brushed cotton and cotton corduroy . |