Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] able [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is surprisingly slow to begin talking , but a good walker , and we were able to take him to the canal where there were ducks , swans , horses and icy puddles to interest him , so that was fine . |
| 2 | And it was a year in which we were able to declare ourselves to be a good research and teaching university . |
| 3 | We had to pick our way down and scale a different shoulder of cliff before we were able to lower ourselves to where Father lay . |
| 4 | The cement was freezing before we were able to apply it to the bricks . |
| 5 | And you know if we were able to commit ourselves to two public , two meetings , three meetings of some sort in a year where we 're actually gon na do something and present some sort of front Par part of presenting some sort of front is to try to sell a few bits of pieces if we 're prepared to accept that we 're going to lose money . |
| 6 | Everything that had been lost he was able to restore it to Ruth . |
| 7 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 8 | Soon he was able to devote himself to it full time . |
| 9 | The surface of the brick was still gelid and adhesive , so that he was able to stick it to the side of a drum near the hull , separated from the fuel tanks only by a steel bulkhead . |
| 10 | ‘ He was able to introduce her to a lot of people but her real ambition is to be a movie star , not an actress on the stage . |
| 11 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 12 | Carol knocked , came in before he was able to tell her to . |