Example sentences of "[was/were] able [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annie was nursed back to full health by the kind nuns who adopted her and they were able to give her a good education . |
| 2 | Connoisseurs who heard tape copies were also suspicious of the vocal mannerisms ; but engineers at the National Sound Archive were able to declare it a forgery the moment they heard it , for an unassailable technical reason . |
| 3 | Oxford City Council councils housing experts were able to tell her the eviction order is illegal . |
| 4 | For many years serious and respectable citizens had worried about the new masses but now at least entrepreneurs and businessmen were able to offer them every service , every distraction , and every entertainment that their wages allowed . |
| 5 | Before I left I was able to give him the good news about his friend Donald , one of the officers to whom we had given food and clothes on the banks of the Rovacchia . |
| 6 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 7 | Aisling 's condition is quite severe but the doctor was able to give her a discernible lip-line and reduce the depth of staining on her face by up to 20pc . |
| 8 | But she remembers very well and erm she was able to give me a lot of personal details about the movement in nineteen nineteen . |
| 9 | When one of the men he had employed as a ploughman in the autumn came to the farm , more in hope than the expectation of finding any work , Seb was able to offer him a day 's pay . |
| 10 | Hitler was able to offer them a new mass base for the apparent consolidation of their leadership positions within the framework of an authoritarian system , together with the prospect of Germany attaining a position of hegemony within Europe and even world power status . |
| 11 | Like all British officials of the Egyptian Government I had been dismissed from my university post eighteen months before , and I was glad that the British Council was able to offer me a small post in Athens , instead of piece work in Cairo . |
| 12 | He was seen with a pretty young woman , was able to paw her a little without having the effort or commitment of doing more and had also enjoyed himself complaining about his wife . |
| 13 | It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria . |
| 14 | Kirsty was able to tell me a great deal of what had taken place in the operating theatre . |