Sentence examples for but managed to lay from inspiring English sources

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A man had his mobile phone stolen but managed to lay a hand on the thief just long enough for the crowd to close in.

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The thinness of their presence means that, under the cover of darkness, Taliban have managed to lay booby trap roadside bombs in previously cleared areas.

"So I managed to lay down the foundations of who the character was before I then took a departure and became incarnations of who she is.

There, on February 16th, as he drove to the airport, apparently under the impression that he would be travelling to the Netherlands, the Turkish government somehow managed to lay its hands on him.

Nevertheless, the family — Pops, Cleotha, Yvonne, and Mavis — managed to lay down ten tracks in the course of a year, accompanied on some of them by the studio musicians Tony Grady, on bass, and Tim Austin, on drums.

Jeffrey T. Atwood, Larchmont, N.Y.: Your column today was amazing, mostly because you managed to lay some responsibility on Alan Greenspan, whose independence gave him the greatest ability and leverage to hold America accountable for its spendthrift behavior.

No matter how impoverished, he always somehow managed to lay in more and costlier art supplies than any of his peers and to miss no opportunity for flaunting it.

This future Nobel Prize winner managed to lay out the 1990s exactly wrong.

In other news the pop princess has also managed to lay claim to the Twitter account BritneySpears, in place of her old account therealbritney.

After securing favorable financing terms from the U.S. federal government and about two years of work, they had only managed to lay out 50 miles of track.

America, you looked for me for years, and I managed to lay low.

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