Sentence examples for managed to interest from inspiring English sources

They had not managed to interest a museum in the files.

Tells how he managed to interest a number of mining promoters and businessmen in the mine; the exposure of the fraud, and the death of Philip Arnold.

And though his youngest son, Thomas, did not play golf, Mr. Hussa managed to interest him in skiing and riding mountain bikes.

Mr. Meade had recently managed to interest his niece, Jonatha Meade, a 27-year-old civil engineer with precisely zero days' sailing experience.

Hooper had managed to interest the Cambridge University Press in sponsoring the 11th edition at no cost to the press after the The Times had canceled its contract because of the lawsuit in 1909.

Finally, Kubrick's and Harris's agent, Ronnie Lubin, managed to interest Kirk Douglas in doing it, and this was enough to persuade United Artists to back the film, provided it was done on a very low budget in Europe.

I said to Joy Poyser, 'How ever she manages to interest anyone in serious vinyl flooring I do not understand.' " John Cleese and Graham Chapman, prattling on in roll-up stockings and hairnets, off to Paris to visit with Jean-Paul Sartre.

Although Migliorini has yet to go through with her devirginization -- which is being done as part of a documentary film by Australian filmmaker Justin Sisely -- she did manage to interest Playboy magazine's Brazilian edition in featuring her in a spread.

McEnroe, though, has achieved something strange: he's managed to refocus interest on the tennis.

It even managed to revive interest in the Leveson inquiry's recommendations.

I was really impressed I managed to keep interest in it, as there were no set changes.