The phrase "manage to attend" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express the idea that someone arrived or was able to attend something. For example: "Although Jane had a busy work schedule, she managed to attend the meeting."
Without a football scholarship, Mr. Russell might manage to attend a local college.
How does the visual system manage to segment a visual scene into surfaces and objects and manage to attend to a target object?
Hunger also spurs millions of children to drop out of school in order to scavenge for food, and those who manage to attend school despite empty bellies find it excruciatingly hard to concentrate.
(How we manage to attend voluntarily to whichever of these films we choose is not explained in the surviving sources).
It's long been noted millennials are surprisingly okay with blue-collar jobs — even those who did manage to attend college and graduate successfully.
Afterwards, Isa Revie, aged 90, who lives in the Drygate district in the east end, just a few hundred yards from the cathedral, says she doesn't normally manage to attend church but was brought to the service by her niece because she "wanted to show solidarity with everyone involved.
He said his expectations were fulfilled - "It was always interesting and exciting, and I always thought I was growing". During those years he also managed to attend Harvard Business School's advanced management training program.
She still managed to attend my Little League and football games, track meets and tennis tournaments.
Rob still managed to attend the Eisteddfod this year, scooting around in his wheelchair.
However, she managed to attend university, in the hope of becoming a teacher.
Slane managed to attend his child's party and stay in touch.
