Example sentences of "he was able [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything that had been lost he was able to restore it to Ruth . |
| 2 | Joseph saw that although he was given evil he was able to turn it into goodness . |
| 3 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 4 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 5 | Soon he was able to devote himself to it full time . |
| 6 | I mean , he was able to put himself among the duped . |
| 7 | But was Picasso fond of the different women he was with or was it that he just liked them physically , and he was able to use them in his work ? |
| 8 | She was the one sister who was sympathetic to him ; that is , when he was able to detach her from the others . |
| 9 | Despite some losses in the final debacle in France , he was able to salvage something by selling lands unprofitably before the end ( 87 ) .3 |
| 10 | Living at a time when the value of works of art in the market was one of taste and appreciation rather than of mere commerce , he was able to avail himself of an ample fortune to buy the finest specimens of the Fine Arts which came into the market . ’ |
| 11 | Being adequately provided for , he was able to book himself into a downtown hotel which cost him three dollars per night , though he often failed to make it back to the hotel , finding the cosmopolitan and nocturnal life of the town there entirely to his liking : consecration dismantled ! |
| 12 | But he was able to propel himself along the ground ‘ like a gorilla ’ . |
| 13 | The surface of the brick was still gelid and adhesive , so that he was able to stick it to the side of a drum near the hull , separated from the fuel tanks only by a steel bulkhead . |
| 14 | ‘ He was able to introduce her to a lot of people but her real ambition is to be a movie star , not an actress on the stage . |
| 15 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 16 | Carol knocked , came in before he was able to tell her to . |
| 17 | And when Mrs Stych returned , looking like a fat Christmas fairy and complaining that she could not fix her wings , he was able to pin them onto her dress without rancour and to tell a thoroughly bawdy joke , which made Hank explode with laughter and his wife look outraged . |
| 18 | He knew he had performed well and he was able to present himself in the best possible aura , that of self-satisfaction , because Hopper gave him carte blanche to edit his own part on film . |
| 19 | Ali sees in this attempt by Hacihasanzade to induce Kemalpasazade to accept a kadilik an example of a means whereby he was able to maintain himself in the office of kazasker ( first in that of Anadolu and then in that of Rumeli ) for twenty-five years . |
| 20 | J. had been with the now famous 617 Squadron for a time , and in talking about this he was able to furnish me with details of an incident which I had vaguely heard of while I was at Bourn . |