Sentence examples for had never managed from inspiring English sources

Another worry was Davey Johnson, the team's new manager, who had never managed in the big leagues.

Völler was happily working in a desk job as general manager at Leverkusen and had never managed a team before.

She had never managed it before.

I had never managed a campaign and had spent hardly any time in San Antonio.

Volkswagen said in a statement that the researchers had never managed to publish a complete study.

Edward Koch had never managed anything more complicated than his Congressional staff.

Somehow he had never managed to tell anyone at work that his brother had died.

Welch and her band had never managed that – a US No 1 – before.

For Mr. Muller, 52, who had never managed a large company before, it was a daring move.

(This was precisely the kind of sustaining institution that the pioneers — the street rats — had never managed to build).

I was bewildered and bemused: No soccer enthusiast, I had never managed even to sit through a whole game.