Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] able [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 2 | Before I left I was able to give him the good news about his friend Donald , one of the officers to whom we had given food and clothes on the banks of the Rovacchia . |
| 3 | But she remembers very well and erm she was able to give me a lot of personal details about the movement in nineteen nineteen . |
| 4 | She was able to make herself a pottery workshop by joining two old telephone engineers ' caravans together , and now works from her father 's market garden near Livingston . |
| 5 | Annie was nursed back to full health by the kind nuns who adopted her and they were able to give her a good education . |
| 6 | It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria . |