Example sentences of "was able [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The male did not bother her at all after spawning , so I was able to leave her in the Mbuna colony until she was ‘ near term ’ — and all the fry were this time normal — all 120+ of them . |
| 2 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 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 | She was able to repeat them at the trial of the young man — and he was sentenced to seven years in prison . |
| 5 | I mean , he was able to put himself among the duped . |
| 6 | He returned to England on succeeding his father as second Baron Northwick in 1800 , and was able to devote himself to the formation of the collection for which Northwick Park became famous . |
| 7 | She was the one sister who was sympathetic to him ; that is , when he was able to detach her from the others . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup . |
| 11 | But he was able to propel himself along the ground ‘ like a gorilla ’ . |
| 12 | It was out in the open now and she was able to look him in the face again , all pretence finished . |
| 13 | I have been interested in the dynamics of the golf swing for ten years , and John is an expert on instrumentation who was able to help me with the experimental work . |
| 14 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 15 | The staff were amazed at how quickly she grasped the various issues and was able to slot them into the incredible filing system of her memory . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was n't , however , until summer had faded that he could at last feel he was his own man again and was able to address himself to the present . |
| 18 | She was taking a secretarial course , and I was able to tell her about the importance of that work in hospital . |
| 19 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |