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"had managed to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing an accomplishment in the past. For example: "He had managed to finish the project on time."
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Somehow we had managed to fill them.
A year later, 41 percent had managed to stay abstinent.
And they had managed to catch him.
She had managed to sleep seven hours.
Lisa's pregnancy had managed to hold.
Others asked about where graduates had managed to find jobs.
Most hauntingly, perhaps, he had managed to recover a rib.
Then he had managed to traverse several Alpine passes.
By now, Solzhenitsyn had managed to alienate almost everyone.
But Aragon had managed to find a tolerably realistic image.
Jasmine, too, had managed to finish a book.
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