Example sentences of "she manage [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Somehow she managed to attend a game of Rugby League . |
| 3 | Sometimes she managed to sell a story to a magazine , and then there were cakes for tea . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | How she managed to find a smile for Ivo when she saw him waiting for her in the foyer , she did n't know . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She was visibly interested in social programmes , in women 's affairs , in medicine , in leper colonies , and she managed to develop a reputation for compassion . |
| 10 | After tossing restlessly for half the night , she managed to get a couple of hours ' sleep , and woke up in the morning feeling very angry with herself . |
| 11 | After this she managed to get a job in the National Health Service , where the majority of speech therapists are employed . |
| 12 | Because she spoke the language she managed to get a job as nanny to the fifteen-month-old son of an English couple who were living in Venice . |
| 13 | She was far too quick-witted to complain and endured silently , but she managed to extract a promise of a new hat and a new dress from him , before getting up an hour later to tidy herself and prepare supper . |
| 14 | Whose bed ? she had an insane desire to say , but for once she managed to keep a check on her unruly tongue . |