Sentence examples for which has contrived from inspiring English sources

When he was a boy, the writer knew the old man, but he doesn't know if the old man remembers him The old man points out a tree which has contrived to grow in the wind of the cliff, and the writer tries to recognize it.

There's a typical Ulster poem called "Eggs", with a charming ending in which the poet has contrived to insert himself, chicken-like, into the egg, from which he now looks out.

It has contrived an elaborate formulation by which jobcentres do not "refer" claimants to food banks, merely "signpost" them.

He has contrived to build a transatlantic reputation (and a £225m fortune) on television programmes which, reduced to their basic essence, encourage multitudes of fame-hungry dreamers to stand before him and be judged.

It has contrived to appear principled and patriotic.

He has contrived to be bribed into changing his mind.

But Tomaszewski has contrived to land in his own spot of bother.

As with Muslims and Jews, the pope has contrived to irk the Church of England.

And he has contrived a deft solution for combining the affairs of ants and men.

Jacobson has contrived to write a novel about Jewishness that smuggles Jewishness under our very noses.

In the past year it has contrived to lose to such footballing minnows as the United States and Norway.