Example sentences of "[was/were] able [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under this stage all holders of vouchers who had not placed them with investment funds were able to use them to apply for shares in the 1,500 companies selected for privatization . |
| 2 | ‘ Epos is the next best thing to a crystal ball , and we were able to use it to plan ahead . |
| 3 | But we were able to stop it getting into the farm house . ’ |
| 4 | Although the " invasion " was rapidly repressed by the Army , it suited Franco 's purposes perfectly , for he was able to use it to support his theory that communism was an ever-present threat . |
| 5 | Carrying just a handgrip , D'Arcy was able to leave them waiting for their luggage and took a taxi direct to the Champs Elysées . |
| 6 | Fortunately the man was able to let her weep and talk about the pain . |
| 7 | And even now , after Dr Neil 's healing influence , daily exerted , for although he could not make direct love to her he was able to let her know in a thousand different ways how much he loved her , and how precious she was to him , she still felt the odd shudder of shame and fear . |
| 8 | She was able to let him go as he was now because she had clarified and confirmed what he had been to her . |
| 9 | I was able to let him know in advance of my possible visit by giving a short letter to someone in Fontanellato , a patient of Dr Sambataro 's , who was going to visit a very ill relative in Lagrimone . |
| 10 | he was able to let it go |
| 11 | If the mortal was able to stop her doing this , the estrie would die . |
| 12 | I did not return to work until was 18 months so I was able to see him cut his first tooth , take his first step and many other monumental firsts . |
| 13 | In fact , she could only be profoundly grateful that none of her business colleagues or any of her smart friends back in London was able to see her looking so awful . |
| 14 | However , the Earl of Warwick joined the Lancastrians and Edward IV was forced abroad , but the Lancastrians did not trust Warwick and Edward IV returned with forces and was able to divide them resulting in Warwick being killed at Barnet in April 1471 , and Henry VI being captured and executed at the Tower of London . |
| 15 | His calculations were very accurate , and he was able to take what seemed to uninitiated Staff Officers big risks , knowing that the shelling would stop before he reached the place being shelled . |
| 16 | Mr Brownlow , fortunately , was able to persuade him to abandon this wild idea . |
| 17 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 18 | Occasionally she was able to force herself to go in a lift if it was one of those with a window at the front so that she could see the passing floors . |
| 19 | I would n't say it was a dissenting voice chairman , erm But er following the discussions on on Friday erm I endeavoured to take erm instructions from on this particular issue which I as far as I was able to do I did . |
| 20 | Whereas Deneuve was able to delegate her ageing to a stuntwoman and dummies ( thus preserving her ‘ look ’ , as she calls it in her very precise and fluent English ) , Bowie had to act several scenes as he aged catastrophically through lack of fresh blood and then , despite one last desperate murder , perishes . |
| 21 | It might have been difficult for the headmaster of our school to believe that we were late because of a derailment , but fortunately a teacher of theology at the school , Don Cavalli , travelled on the tram every day , and he was able to explain what had happened , giving us a cast-iron alibi . |
| 22 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 23 | He was able to introduce what has become known as the Herbert Act to extend the grounds for divorce to include ( in addition to adultery ) desertion , cruelty and incurable insanity . |
| 24 | It was not until 1963 that a reformist element was able to make itself heard , with the election to the position of first secretary of the Slovak party of Alexander Dubček . |
| 25 | She was able to help him share his anxiety about the risk of moving , and this made it more manageable . |
| 26 | Although she did not watch the videos he made , through discussion she was able to help him to gain control of a class which had initially been ‘ unteachable ’ and to design a workcard and organize lessons in a planned way . |
| 27 | When he made love to her , she was able to believe he felt something — something — for her . |
| 28 | It was only with great effort that was able to get them to arrange the Open Door Schooling visit so that it was useful as a teaching exercise , instead of being a ceremonial procession through the commune . |
| 29 | In addition , he was able to encourage her to tackle her other problems in a practical and sensible way . |
| 30 | When the tumult died down and Seb was able to hear himself speak , he asked Noah , ‘ Do you really know the Duke of Marlborough ? ’ |