Sentence examples for managed to in from inspiring English sources

Strange how a home, populated by other people, can humanise its owner far more than they ever managed to in life.

Obama knew that, if things had broken differently, he would have had to speak to staffers knowing that they had worked harder and, because they are young and not Presidents, had been braver knocking on doors, speaking to strangers, giving a better account of his Presidency than he had managed to in his first debate.

Developing better SMS services across multiple operators means that the messages will be interoperable (what you send on one network and handset will be seen that way when received on another network and handset) in the same way that apps are working today but SMS has only managed to in the most pared-down, text-only scenarios.

Someone named Lindsey Stoddart managed to, in the first two minutes, cram in about five politically incorrect zingers.

It at least gets you thinking in ways that few movies have managed to in this year's absence of thought-provoking films.

In it, he managed to, in his gently joking manner, get people talking about things like not being able to get a boner on command or having to do gay porn because the straight porn market was so saturated: day-to-day things totally intrinsic to the industry and its community that we at once guffawed at, but also thought, Huh, I'd never considered that.

I managed to fight in the fifth.

We've managed to stay in shape.

Only one managed to get in, briefly.

But some managed to stay in business.

They say he managed to be in Georgia, managed to go somewhere else, some money.