Object

• way: So Para Handy was left to contrive ways of keeping his beloved ship afloat and his way of life intact.

• plan: He doesn't preach or contrive some great plan to his success, his secret was simple.

• system: What you should never do is to contrive a system of races to bring about the result you want.

• machine: Babbage distinguishes sharply between the ability to contrive new machines and the ability to manufacture them.

• situation: Thus Austen has to contrive a situation in which Elizabeth declines Darcy's first proposal, thereby demonstrating her indifference to wealth.

Infinitive complement

• miss: Woods, dressed in what looks like a Holland football shirt, then contrives to miss the return, which Faldo does not.

• keep: How passengers contrive to keep their teeth in place is uncertain.

• make: It suits you to contrive to make adults lose their tempers - that puts you in control.

• look: It contrives to look faintly incongruous; a column in white concrete sitting atop an outcrop of black sandstone.

• get: How then did Stalin contrive to get power in the bargain?

• give: Gloucester still contrive to give soft tries Only Premiership leaders Bath have a better defensive record in the league.

Modifying Another Word

• somehow: Elslack Moor somehow contrives to look much bigger than it actually is.

• so: It is a splendid idea, that we must so contrive it that it may not seem to be a concerted plan.

• not: Platt, also struggling with things his mind could not contrive to reconcile, said " that confounded hypocrite.

• all: Moisture, dust and debris will all contrive to ruin your work and probably the engine.

• subtly: Forestall your opponent by seizing what he holds dear, and subtly contrive to time his arrival on the ground.

• still: Gloucester still contrive to give soft tries Only Premiership leaders Bath have a better defensive record in the league.