Example sentences of "[was/were] able [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , her relatives were able to move her to another home which was cheaper : that is an increasingly common practice . |
| 2 | We had the NWN report of those six points and were able to give it to him . |
| 3 | And it was a year in which we were able to declare ourselves to be a good research and teaching university . |
| 4 | Although judicial business was conducted in English and followed procedure alien to pre-British Sri Lanka , people were able to adapt themselves to the new institutions and the courts soon handled a very heavy criminal and civil load . |
| 5 | Such a statement is misleading , because it seems to imply that the Tories were Jacobites at heart ; in fact , most Tories were able to accommodate themselves to the break in the succession which had taken place in 1688 – 9 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The cement was freezing before we were able to apply it to the bricks . |
| 10 | She was n't used to expressing such volatility in front of anyone , and it confounded her how a total stranger , and a man she disliked into the bargain , was able to stir her to such an extent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Soon he was able to devote himself to it full time . |
| 13 | He returned to England on succeeding his father as second Baron Northwick in 1800 , and was able to devote himself to the formation of the collection for which Northwick Park became famous . |
| 14 | Everything that had been lost he was able to restore it to Ruth . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was n't , however , until summer had faded that he could at last feel he was his own man again and was able to address himself to the present . |
| 19 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
| 20 | Carol knocked , came in before he was able to tell her to . |