Example sentences of "[pers pn] was able [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was eighteen I had the very good fortune , think it was a miracle really , that I was able to join a local women 's group in Stratford in East London . |
| 2 | Her husband kindly returned them to me , and I was able to do a great deal of destruction for myself . |
| 3 | Having a bit of a rest in the winter , I was able to relax a little bit more , so I think I came over a lot fresher than I normally do for the start of the season . |
| 4 | On my shirt Harvey had arranged that I wore the word ‘ observer ’ , which meant I was able to remember a prior appointment when the going got rough . |
| 5 | The Guggenheim installation worked well for me too because I was able to use a strict chronology : one thing after another all the way down the ramp . |
| 6 | I was able to buy a small car in which to make the fifteen-minute drive to the campus each day . |
| 7 | I was able to buy a second-hand machine with an electric motor at a charity shop a few months ago . |
| 8 | When I married , I was able to get a good job and a house for my family . |
| 9 | When the votes of thanks and other formalities were over , I was able to have a brief word with him as he emerged into the vestibule . |
| 10 | When I was in Ulm , where the season ran only from September to April , I was able to travel a great deal ; and then I went to Milan to hear real Italian singing . |
| 11 | Well , he sent me quite a series of postcards , and from them I was able to reconstruct a typical street corner . |
| 12 | She was able to give a good account of herself and was reasonably cheerful during the interview , except when she talked about her boyfriend and about the distress she had caused her parents . |
| 13 | But Mrs Tighe claimed that she was able to remember a previous incarnation when she was an Irishwoman by the name of Bridey Murphy . |
| 14 | Bettelheim and Zelan suggest that the child 's feeling for the event and for language was so strong that she was able to invent a new word spontaneously . |
| 15 | Sukova made her work extremely hard before she was able to celebrate a 4-6 , 6-1 , 6-4 victory . |
| 16 | It was finally thanks to the generous attitude of the Swiss government that she was able to purchase a small property at Arenenberg near Lake Constance , in the Canton of Thurgau . |
| 17 | Despite the competition , four years later she was able to purchase a wooden cart with small wheels . |
| 18 | And she was able to steam a complete meal while the washing was boiling . |
| 19 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 20 | And then , after a time , we er had the er electricity took up the yard and into the shop and then we was able to buy a little machine you know what I mean and it went from there . |
| 21 | More recently , as the size of the Department and its financial and manpower resources permitted , it was able to provide a centralized service for a growing number of tribunals . |
| 22 | As a result , he was able to create a symmetrical , monumental composition of great power . |
| 23 | At the beginning of March his wife drove him to Regents Park , and he was able to take a few steps in the spring sunshine . |
| 24 | Now and then , he was able to perform a special service for one of his clients and there was a little secrecy involved . |
| 25 | By digging his heels into the rocks he was able to lunge a good six feet nearer the home bank . |
| 26 | He was able to do a good impression of a struggling young writer , as he looked more late thirties than early forties . |
| 27 | He was able to give a pagan friend power of attorney to act on his behalf , and so found an elegant way of keeping his conscience clear and his standing with the church unaffected . |
| 28 | Here he was able to indulge a growing passion for literature , but not poetry , he recollects . |
| 29 | By day nine , he was able to tolerate a continuous positive airway pressure ( CPAP ) circuit , a self-ventilating system , although the patient may still be intubated . |
| 30 | His squadron was too small to emulate Blake 's attack on Porto Farina , but he was able to negotiate a satisfactory peace with the Dey of Tunis in February 1658 , winning the right for English warships and merchantmen to use the facilities of Porto Farina , and ransoming English captives at a favourable rate . |