Example sentences of "had been able [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the polytechnic , the court was told , Bedworth had been able to hack into computer systems all around the world using his microcomputer — a type found in many schools — as a master terminal . |
| 2 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 3 | He said the soldier told him he had been struck a glancing blow by the car , but that he had not been knocked over and afterwards had been able to continue on duty . |
| 4 | Up to 1946 , Truman had been able to rely on support from both Democrats and Republicans in dealing with the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | Olga and Joe had been able to go to school , though they had plenty of farm chores as well . |
| 6 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 7 | In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality . |
| 8 | And to add to her joy , Hilda took her to meet sister Lena as the two had been able to keep in touch . |
| 9 | The only thing she had been able to think of doing was going after Lori and getting the jade back herself . |
| 10 | But on these rare occasions the frontier posts protecting Blanche 's personality had been unmanned , and Dexter had been able to wander at will through her past and her present . |