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"I managed to sell them at the end of second year for a tiny fraction of the price," she says.

Spring finally blossomed about the same time I managed to sell some drawings to The New Yorker.

Probably I should feel lucky that I managed to sell anything, given my less-than-expert methods.

My little heralded earlier career as the world's worst insurance salesman came to a sticky end in the mid-1980s when I managed to sell myself the wrong mortgage endowment policy.

But I managed to sell my house rather than go through a foreclosure sale and eviction.

But I managed to sell my first story to a professional market before I graduated, so that's something.

The council built homes there, which it managed to sell before completion, off plan.

If I manage to sell the book, it will reach people I could not on my own.

Dido was pleased with the way her career was going: 'I thought I'd managed to sell loads of records without anybody knowing who I was.' But on the beach, she saw someone flicking through a copy of the Express and noticed an unexpectedly familiar face splashed across the front page.

Rootes, which was taken over by Chrysler just before I joined them and bankrupted not long after I left, managed to sell not just the car but a whole car manufacturing plant to the Iranians during the Shah's era and in a remarkably short time the sturdy Paykan flooded the Iranian market.

Pasture was usually a problem during dry seasons here but through FMNR, my cows have enough grass and I have managed to sell a surplus of 39 bags of grass worth 331,000 shillings [£70]," Tumhaire says.