Example sentences of "was able [verb] contact [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Phillip Knightley , Philby had done rather better and was enjoying the comfortable lifestyle of a retired KGB general with his wife Rufa , had built up a library of 12,000 books , saw Western newspapers regularly and was able to maintain contact with his family in the West . |
| 2 | Last but not least , he was able to maintain contact with his counts and missi through meetings at assemblies . |
| 3 | Within the Labour League of Youth the YCL was able to maintain contact with the membership and the National Advisory Committee , particularly through the influence of Ted Willis and the Advance group . |
| 4 | He was in Long Lartin prison when he wrote to me , but by the time that I was able to make contact with him , he had been transferred to Winson Green prison . |
| 5 | Some still do n't know what have happened to their menfolk , but one was able to make contact by telephone with her husband after six months . |
| 6 | Within a week she was living with a black foster parent , in the area in which she had grown up , and was able to resume contact with her sister . |