Example sentences of "managed [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I managed to hammer out the brief for the marioc debate in the nick of time . |
| 2 | During that painful walk I managed to work out the general outline of these pages . |
| 3 | In three minutes I managed to put out the whole fire , and the lovely old building was safe . |
| 4 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 5 | The train was full of children , travelling alone and in groups , who managed to finish off the entire food stocks of the dining car . |
| 6 | Remembering just in time that this heartless cynic was responsible for getting her out of the clutches of the Gibraltar Police and Customs Service , Polly managed to bite back the caustic retort trembling on the tip of her tongue and stared blankly at the vast selection of starters and main courses . |
| 7 | She could n't bring herself to look at him , and God knew how she managed to drag out the conventional words in a voice already husky with pain . |