Example sentences of "was able [verb] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed to transport the wheelbarrow on those days when I was able to carry supplies on my back from one village to the next . |
| 2 | the school was able to save money on non-educational things like waste collection , and then use it for educational items ; and |
| 3 | On his return to Aquitaine he was able to recruit mercenaries on a large scale . |
| 4 | There may have been as many as 200 women compositors in London in the early 1890s , but as has been noted , the London Society of Compositors was able to exert pressure on employers and see that on the whole they were vanishing or being expelled to printing-houses in the Home Counties . |
| 5 | He was able to provide information on age , sex , and growth of whales for the first time without killing , touching , marking , or molesting a single animal . |