Example sentences of "[pron] was able make [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language , and in a few days I was able to make conversation with the island people . |
| 3 | So I was able to make excursions throughout the state , which is about the size of Hampshire , admiring its astonishing number of traditional country houses , and enjoying the company of many of their owners . |
| 4 | Gradually my eyes got used to the glare and I was able to make sense of my surroundings . |
| 5 | This was particularly the case amongst many of the female students , several of whom expressed anxiety about handling machinery or breaking expensive equipment ( unlike Paul , who was able to make jokes about it ) : |
| 6 | It would be a rare individual who was able to make use of a political connection who failed to do so , for the advantages were well known . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There were so many children that each one of the mothers and nursemaids thought that he must belong to somebody else , but as he was about the same size as the children and not much different to look at , he was able to make friends with some of them . |
| 9 | He was able to make use of parrots not only in the Society 's collection , but in the vast private menageries of Lord Stanley , who was then president of both the Zoological and Linnean Societies , and who would later become Lear 's principal patron ; and in the collections of Sir Henry Halford , ‘ the eel-backed baronet ’ and physician to George IV and William IV ; of Lady Mountcharles ; and of Vigors himself , who was a neighbour of Lear 's at Chester Terrace . |