Example sentences of "that i 'd been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors . |
| 2 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 3 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 4 | It was so light , compared to the heavy duty G3 , that I 'd been able to forget I was carrying it . |
| 5 | She said , with a catch in her voice , ‘ I — I wish very much that I 'd been able to meet him . ’ |