Sentence examples for managed to prise from inspiring English sources

She was screaming and crying and somehow managed to prise me away from my father.

The black-back had just at that instant managed to prise its partner's head off, and was flailing it about.

This weekend, however, I have managed to prise open a football window, and into it I have inserted a bike ride.

When Southampton managed to prise Villa apart, they were thwarted by last-ditch interventions, Alan Hutton blocking a shot by Steven Davis in the 63rd minute.

That is the lesson offered by the history of the GATT process of trade liberalisation, which has managed to prise open the world's markets in fits and starts since the end of the second world war.

And that, after Westwood had lived in the same tiny council flat for 30 years, Kronthaler finally managed to prise her out of it by buying a house and doing it up.

Perhaps what will be most interesting is if the Newsnight inquisitor manages to prise any pledges out of the prime minister on the state of the public services by the time of the next election.

She managed to prevent her colleague Jay Hunt from prising it away to BBC1 (before Hunt left the corporation this week to take up a role at Channel 4), and argues it has "a core value of 'two-ness'" as well as mass appeal.

The race's postponement prised open the door once again, however, as Geraghty was already committed at Newbury – and Thomas gratefully managed to extricate himself from obligations to his new boss, Tom George.

I managed to find a line to confuse him and got a good position but then made some inaccuracies and after a horrible double blunder – he left something huge "en prise", as we say, and I failed to take it – he got into a very good position.

Otherwise, how did he manage not only to prise Figo from Barcelona, Zidane from Juventus and Ronaldo from Internazionale, but to turn each of these expensive purchases into almost instant profit?