Example sentences of "[subord] she have been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Storm or no storm , she could no more have returned to the inn than she had been able to return penitent to the bosom of her family six long years ago , when the same stigma would have been laid to her then as had been laid to her now . |
| 2 | She was contributing more than she had been able to before to her mother 's household expenses . |
| 3 | Wishing desperately that she were able to defend her grandfather , but knowing that to explain would only cause more trouble until she 'd been able to speak with his mother , and fervently wishing she had locked her door when she 'd come up to bed , Ellie said tiredly , ‘ I do n't know why . |
| 4 | In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality . |
| 5 | In any case , she was too scared to go back to sleep even if she had been able to . |
| 6 | It was their ritual , ever since she 'd been able to string words together . |
| 7 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 8 | When she had been able to plan her charity lunches and her dinner parties , go shopping , gossip with friends , look at her life and know that at last she had achieved all she had ever wanted , even If sometimes it was a little lonely , a little empty ? |
| 9 | In a strange way , she felt cleansed , as though she 'd been able to strip the dark places away from her soul . |
| 10 | Being used — as Luke had used her last night — was humiliating , and even though she had been able to turn the tables it had left a bitter after-taste . |
| 11 | Adele had looked up at him , not quickly but as quickly as she 'd been able . |
| 12 | They gave the bare details of Jenner 's life and career as far as she 'd been able to check it out — dates , addresses , all the useful stuff that Reynolds could work from — followed by a surprising amount of straight campus gossip . |