| I had to wangle the cheddar cheese away from our other sous-chef, Eric, who was holding onto it for some as-yet-unbooked private party. |
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| Will Lola and Ella be able to get to the concert, wangle invitations to Stu's party afterward, and face down Carla? |
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| One Labour MP hinted that Smith's case was a wangle, and mentioned other sportsmen and celebrities who had returned home quickly after call-up. |
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| So if you're determined to land a tutor, you need to wangle invites to all those College dinners at High Table. |
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| I came home today instead of tomorrow, I was able to wangle myself a seat on a navy transport from Groton. |
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| The Professor manages to wangle a job as the producer's assistant and is given responsibility for many of the production details. |
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| Unless U.S. statesmen can wangle the rights to their use, the U.S. will be left at the post. |
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| If he could wangle his backside onto or into a seat he was away! |
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| Furthermore, Zeeman finally managed to wangle a life insurance policy for both of us last week, after much effort. |
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| In Alabama, you must shoot a doe before you wangle a buck permit. |
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| When I was younger, I used to wangle my way on to the table most weekends. |
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| When I was trying to wangle invitations to Washington to talk about this stuff, they would get private investors to hop on a plane and fly to New Haven to see it. |
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| Alternatively you pay for a private school or wangle a place in a good school out of your area and transport your kids, as the Blairs did. |
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| A handful Zambia's Frederick Chiluba in 2002, Malawi's Bakili Muluzi in 2004 and Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007 stepped down only after trying in vain to wangle extensions. |
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| Since he was at least as well-connected as he was well qualified, it took only till the Spring of '42 for him to wangle his way into the boss's chair of the new Geological Survey of Canada. |
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| Whenever it is unable to wangle a favourable deal for a military base abroad, or it wants to play up nationalism at home, Russia threatens to introduce visas for Central Asians. |
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| Considering the better prospects for the power supply now, we're going to see if we can wangle a daily distance of more than 40 miles for tomorrow. |
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| We have nevertheless managed to wangle a compromise. |
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| Only the Chinese have managed to wangle a special concession and also to build a pipeline. The main pipeline from Turkmenistan goes through Russia. |
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| With this book, Podhoretz has managed to wangle himself admission to the writer's Big Rock Candy Mountain. |
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| Tickets naturally are like gold dust but we have managed to wangle a pair for the gig. |
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| Among these bona fide divorce-courtcases, we'll first try to do something for the Wangle couple. |
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