Example sentences of "[pron] managed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I managed to heave Charlie into the main bar and prop him up against a wall . |
| 2 | The doctors said they did n't know how I managed to carry on in such pain . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I managed to carry through the hijacking 80 per cent . |
| 4 | I 'd never driven a van in my life but I managed to drive it from the East End to the West End , which I found a feat , and then I finally drove it up to Cumberland in the snow which was even more of a feat . |
| 5 | I managed to drive out of the hospital but I had to stop the car and was violently sick . |
| 6 | I managed to leave the children and travel straight to my mother 's to help her make all the arrangements . |
| 7 | I do n't know how I managed to turn the corner without bumping into something ! |
| 8 | The merest action I managed to take seemed infinitely long in completing . |
| 9 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 10 | I managed to wriggle my hands out of the tape so I could pull down the gag , poke my head out of the sack and breathe more freely . |
| 11 | I managed to track her down and eventually got her on the telephone . |
| 12 | My credit card bills all arrived simultaneously , as usual , and some hours passed before I managed to disentangle the statements and envelopes from a considerable volume of frivolous and , one would have thought , peripheral material . |
| 13 | I was about to say , If Eva and Dad get married you 'll be my brother and we 'll have committed incest , but I managed to shut my trap . |
| 14 | I managed to ask . |
| 15 | I managed to ask . |
| 16 | I managed to arrange that . |
| 17 | As he took my hand again I managed to whisper ‘ Tell me your name , sweet sir ’ . |
| 18 | My stomach went all queer inside but I managed to push the message between her icy fingers and kiss her forehead before I pulled my hand away . |
| 19 | Up until the age of 33 , I managed to push this turmoil to the back of my mind , although I 'd always had trouble with relationships because I was so full of self-doubt , and succeeded in destroying any relationship that seemed to be leading anywhere . |
| 20 | The sheep were very curious and made a bee-line for me but I managed to push my way through to the birds . |
| 21 | This platform was also fast filling up , but I managed to edge my way along the wall-walk to the shade of a chattri at the south-east corner . |
| 22 | I felt terrified but I managed to control myself . |
| 23 | After a terrible 15 minutes I managed to talk again to the same doctor and she explained that elevated meant they were not nought , not as I had thought , that they were going up . |
| 24 | ‘ I managed to talk him round by telling him what he can achieve here . |
| 25 | First of all , I managed to talk to Bertelli , the husband of the weeping woman at number three . |
| 26 | But I managed to talk my way out of them , with luck and with help from Fritz and Sapt . |
| 27 | ‘ I managed to talk her out of her mission of mercy , ’ André replied , grinning warmly at Alyssia . |
| 28 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 29 | I managed to squeeze it in . |
| 30 | Heaving and struggling I managed to close the door , but it kept opening again , weakened by its storm-fractured clasp . |