Sentence examples similar to managing to scrape through from inspiring English sources

After being selected this time, he told the BBC he was pleased he "managed to scrape through", adding that addressing fellow UKIP members made him "nervous" as they are a "bloody-minded lot".

But, even if she manages to scrape through in November, the junior senator for California will be a diminished figure.

Nadal faced a multitude of set points and breaks against both Andrey Golubev and David Nalbandian, but managed to scrape through each time.

England has managed to scrape through her history without any saunas at all, until the Finns installed one in London this winter.

Most other debt advisers also notice a peak at this time as families who have managed to scrape through Christmas get their credit card and other bills and realise they cannot make ends meet much longer.

Fresh from dying and then rinsing out my red hair for Comic Relief on Friday, Lincoln managed to scrape through to the quarter-finals with a 1-0 win over fellow Super League team Chelsea.

RBS only just managed to scrape through a $20.7 billion rights issue earlier this year, so it is unclear how successful this emergency capital-raising will be, leaving the way open for the government to take yet more control.

The Scot was 0.161secs slower than team-mate Adrian Sutil, who managed to scrape through in 15th place as the team continue to struggle on the new-specification tyre that was introduced at the Hungarian Grand Prix four races ago.

Shaw declined to comment on the changes and, with about $19 billion under management, something tells me the firm will manage to scrape by, even with lower rates.

So I just about managed to scrape into double-figures.

He was never a bookish boy and managed to scrape by with the minimum of work.