Example sentences of "been able [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in her semi-conscious state she had been able to give them the phone number of her sister Margaret in Australia . |
| 2 | They say they 're having to deal with more and more dogs owned by families who have n't been able to give them the exercise they need . |
| 3 | Her mother said : ‘ Those former foster parents , who she 's been once a year to Spain with , they have been able to give her the luxuries that I could not afford to give her . ’ |
| 4 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 5 | I think that 's what Eve would have been telling you had she been able to give you a ring … . ’ |
| 6 | We hope that in this Lenten Appeal we 've been able to give you a sense of that . |
| 7 | Success in this field is going to become even more important as we move into the 1990s and beyond and I hope that in this book I 've been able to give you the benefit of my experience , to pass on the kind of backstage know-how that can make that vital difference between winning and losing . |
| 8 | But he was already a fallen idol in Patricia 's eyes , all because he had not been able to deny himself a sentimental gesture before leaving . |
| 9 | She was lucky she 'd been able to keep it a secret all along . |