adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
somehow managed
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We somehow managed to persuade him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
become
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It's as though the show had become somehow more spectacular.
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What sounded at the time like the ultimate novelty music has somehow become part of the national consciousness.
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He had somehow become separate, beyond our reach.
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Some first-time eaters may become alarmed as this happens, thinking they have somehow become the victim of a time-lapse photography gag.
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And they all somehow became a union again, or became a union for the first time.
feel
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He somehow felt safe, locked into his seat, as if no harm would come to him if he stayed like that.
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Riven felt somehow that it was fitting - Jenny's facsimile had come ahead of them.
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My reprieve could make me somehow feel quite snubbed.
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Most people feel somehow embarrassed talking about it in depth.
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He felt somehow responsible for the way she was behaving, as if he should have spotted it sooner, caught on sooner.
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He felt somehow different and shut his eyes again to try to discover the cause.
find
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Or has she somehow found reinforcement?
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There was another mysterious Macintosh called Jonathan, but that also somehow found itself by the wayside.
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Senior civil servants somehow find time from the burdens of office to sit around deliberating over who really deserves what.
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We somehow found the ferry, and bought passage.
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Of course, she should have somehow found the nerve to divorce him ages ago.
get
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Your time and my time ... well they've somehow got all mixed up.
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And worse, I think he somehow got the message across to you.
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She was absorbedly prodding the aged melon, which she had somehow got hold of.
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Further, if blacks somehow got elected to political office, they must be mobbed and displaced.
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Her credentials, if she could call them that, had somehow got about.
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The day after, George Leonard from the Trib somehow got the number of the cabin and asked me for a comment.
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The girl looked very rumpled and the boy was having trouble with his fly which had somehow got jammed.
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Obviously the past year I somehow got on the downward spiral at work.
make
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Individual properties have sometimes been made somehow dependent on general properties by these philosophers, but that is nothing to the point.
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This great, black, maverick dog had somehow made him feel twenty years younger.
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As if saying you want to spend the rest of your life with the same person somehow makes you a flawed bore.
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A deluge of medals somehow makes the effort look more meaningful, no matter how little valor accompanies it.
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He must now somehow make sense of the anti-democratic whirlwind that he was mainly responsible for sowing.
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They stayed in a refugee camp for awhile, then somehow made their way to the United States.
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Just talking to you somehow makes me feel better.
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The aim is to keep stars from freezing before the microphones or endorsing a cause that somehow makes them look bad.
manage
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Yuan had somehow managed to reach the cover of the side of the lifeboat, but now he rejoined the others.
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He said there were constitutional problems with the bill, variations of which somehow manage to exist in 36 other states.
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If Pickles really does love you, maybe the pater would give her a decent allowance and you'd manage somehow .
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She is somehow managing to get herself fouled by just about everyone on the Washington team.
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Her elastic voice easily negotiated some truly devious melodies, somehow managing to sound joyful and heartbroken at the same time.
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So after Joey takes off, I somehow manage to complete the four miles.
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On four separate occasions when the problems involved finance, Willi had somehow managed to wheedle an emergency sum from the Gemeinderat.
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And I marvel at how two conflicting philosophies could shoot out in opposite directions and then somehow manage to connect.
seem
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He somehow seemed familiar with the jokes that the young were making and used their slang.
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And it somehow seemed perfectly coordinated with the stadium, the ground, early evening and the four of us.
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But in these surroundings the whole effect seems somehow natural.
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He had never done this before, but it somehow seemed appropriate to be naked at this moment.
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His thin face was yellowish-white and his whole body seemed somehow diminished.
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And in turn, their fashion photography somehow seems elevated, more substantial because it was created by bona fide artistes.
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Under the present circumstances, it seemed somehow tactless.
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His assurance seemed somehow to release her: her work was finished, she felt, and now she could go.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Somehow I had a feeling you were going to say that.
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Somehow they managed to climb in through the bathroom window.
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I'll find out her address somehow or other.
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The newspaper had somehow got hold of some secret government papers.
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There's a bus strike, but I'm sure Ian will get here somehow .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And nobody would pay anything to anyone unless they could get it back somehow .
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And, oddly enough, this growing uneasiness somehow affected my work for the better.
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Eels come into it somehow , but not in a way that can be described in a family newspaper.
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Fon somehow understood that the ancient rhythms of the words soothed Katherine as much as the message behind them.
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It was all right, somehow , his being dead.
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Something strange had happened; the caddie bus had somehow taken on a life of its own.
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There was somehow a smell of sulphur in the air now and Rohmer's eyes seemed to be glittering in triumph.