Sentence examples for I once managed to from inspiring English sources

I once managed to deflect all questions about Danny's age — without actually lying — for a month, but it was exhausting.

I once managed to cause a cleaners' strike on the Daily Herald with a review of Up the Junction.

(I once managed to praise, within the magazine's pages, the wit of Gore Vidal, an object of fury and litigation for its editor).

"I once managed to walk into the Dynamo Kyiv stadium (during a non-matchday) and made it all the way on to the pitch," confesses Hugh Collins.

He slipped a few times, and once managed to drag me with him until I self-arrested with the ice ax.

As you know better than I, James Patterson -- the author and the entrepreneur -- through sheer force of personality once managed to get a book publisher to look at the world a whole different way than before.

"I haven't had a chance to meet him," Subban said, adding that his brother once managed to get him a Rangers sweater autographed by Lundqvist.

He has taken a mini-refrigerator aboard the train, he said, and he once managed to get a four-foot house plant home that way, alive.

"The Attack" is both a plea for peace and a rendering of the Palestinian frustration and fury that this well-heeled Arab-Israeli once managed to ignore.

He only once managed to get his choice of guest on the programme - Spike Milligan - but other times when he's suggested someone he's been overruled.

Mr. Edwards was an intensely private man, but Mr. Lyon once managed to tape record a late-night conversation with him.