Example sentences of "[adv] was able [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually she came to Byblos and succeeded in having the palace column removed and thus was able to retrieve the casket and take it back to Egypt , where she hid it in the marshes of the Delta . |
| 2 | A few months after his death I finally was able to write an elegy for my father , ‘ died 21st January , 1958 ’ , which is the final poem in The Prodigal Son . |
| 3 | Throughout the day my talk was all ber bers and doo doos , and I hardly was able to understand a word spoken to me . |
| 4 | I also was able to attend the School Speech Day in the evening of one of my work days . |
| 5 | That 's where Dogs Today was able to take a hand . |
| 6 | He was apologetic , explained that an error had been made with her account and very cleverly was able to persuade the woman to give her PIN number . |
| 7 | He never was able to prove a connection , but he remained convinced that there must have been one . |