Example sentences of "managed [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Actually , ’ Matthew said , ‘ I 've always wondered how those girls managed to wear muslin to the crushes at Bath and not end up with pneumonia . |
| 2 | Every king from James I to James V ( though not Mary ) built ; as with the great guns and the great ships , so they managed to find money for the great buildings . |
| 3 | On the way we managed to catch sight of the Matlock Branch and the Midland Main Line in typical Derbyshire settings . |
| 4 | Still at the conference but managed to catch Match of the Day this morning . |
| 5 | Their first auction in Moscow was successful because they managed to obtain permission from the Soviet authorities to export a group of Russian paintings from the Twenties and Thirties . |
| 6 | Kaifu also managed to resist pressure for the inclusion within the new Cabinet of LDP members who were tainted by the Recruit scandal , which meant the continued exclusion from office of faction leaders Michio Watanabe , Kiichi Miyazawa , and Shintaro Abe ( a former Prime Minister ) , each of whom wielded enormous influence within the party and was considered a potential Prime Minister . |
| 7 | The young man managed to combine collusion with the antiseptic disinterest of a nurse . |
| 8 | The Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) summit , held in Casablanca , Morocco , on Sept. 15-16 , managed to avoid discord on the subjects of Western Sahara and plans for a Middle East peace conference . |
| 9 | Meanwhile Chancellor Norman Lamont managed to win support for the pound from the EC yesterday . |
| 10 | Marchais ( general secretary since 1972 ) managed to retain control despite the challenges of reformists within ( " refondateurs " ) and without ( " reconstructeurs " ) . |
| 11 | During the general cessation of hostilities in the winter that followed , Oliver Cromwell managed to persuade Parliament to the reorganization of the Army , with Sir Thomas Fairfax as the Commander-in-Chief . |
| 12 | How Theda kept her countenance throughout the drive home she never knew , but somehow , perhaps by dint of dwelling on the attention paid her by Finchingfield and Tiverton , she managed to divert Rose from the dangerous topic of Lady Usk 's strange conduct . |
| 13 | And later on , in the '30s , the Hawaiians managed to get hold of the early electrified lap-steels , like the Rickenbackers and the Gibsons — Gibsons were just everywhere in those days . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I chased after them , caught up with them and I managed to get hold of the three of them . |
| 15 | In September 1991 he managed to recover possession of the Czartoryski Museum and Library in Krakow , lock , stock and barrel . |
| 16 | A team of three police negotiators managed to make contact with the man , thought to be 24 , with a telephone passed through an upstairs window . |
| 17 | A team of three police negotiators managed to make contact with the man , thought to be 24 , with a telephone passed through an upstairs window . |
| 18 | However , he managed to become chairman of the cross-party Public Accounts Committee as well as of the 1922 committee of back-benchers from which position he played a key role in Heath 's downfall as part of the Milk Street gang ( named after the street of his very minor merchant bank , Keyser Ullmann ) . |
| 19 | Old Boys locks David Phelps and Mark Trigg managed to achieve parity at the line-out , but it was the set scrum which proved to be their Achilles heel . |