Example sentences of "[pers pn] [been] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | At no time have I been able to see anything cither Nazi or necessarily homosexual in the listed pleasures , which are precisely of the kind which might occur in a George MacDonald fantasy . |
| 2 | Only lately , though , have I been able to get virtually one pulse through the entire work . |
| 3 | Nor have I been able to watch A Winter Too Many . |
| 4 | His twenty-one months as a prisoner of war at Karlsruhe would have been satisfactory , he later calculated , ‘ had I been able to bank them and draw them two or three weeks at a time whenever I wanted a respite from ordinary experience ’ . |
| 5 | Had I been able to come , I would have sought the union 's support our wish to see full advantage being taken in Wales of the CAP 's Agri-Environment Programme . |
| 6 | I might have broken my luck had I been able to get over the Alps on a raid to Turin on 11 June . |
| 7 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 8 | have I been able to see a fight so clearly … |
| 9 | Sadly many of the views , expressed to me , have taken a negative or critical tone , and far too infrequently have I been able to pass on constructive or positive ideas and opinions . |
| 10 | Why had n't she been able to understand ? |
| 11 | It was a journey that would not have made Mrs Zamzam happy had she been able to make it herself . |
| 12 | Nor had she been able to comprehend what was going on . |
| 13 | Susan Hampshire herself was invited to become a governor , and who knows , might have accepted , had she been able to suss out what we were on about . |
| 14 | I think that 's what Eve would have been telling you had she been able to give you a ring … . ’ |
| 15 | Had she been able to , Selina might even have tried to prevent that small detail from slipping out . |
| 16 | This account is now generally accepted , although some historians still suggest that Elizabeth herself would have preferred to have reintroduced the 1549 Prayer Book , had she been able to enlist any support for this move from her lay and clerical advisers at court . |
| 17 | Not for a moment had she been able to deceive herself that she was anything but bad , truly bad . |
| 18 | Alix could not have afforded this solution , and would have thought it cheating had she been able to afford it , although she thoroughly despised herself for these scruples . |
| 19 | On the morning of the day before her departure Delia Sutherland was sitting in front of the fruit and toast Luney set daily on the terrace , and which not once had she been able to eat . |
| 20 | He looked so thunderous that she would have run had she been able , but the chance did not arise . |
| 21 | Can the Prime Minister tell the House how he squares his vision of a classless Britain with the experience of a constituent of mine from Fulwood , who was told last May that she needed a hip replacement but that she would have to wait 14 months for the operation under the national health service , and who was told that she could have had the operation immediately had she been able to cough up £4,300 ? |
| 22 | So that had she been able to take her history exam , she would have needed rather a good grade there , perhaps a better grade than her past performance suggested she would have attained . |
| 23 | ‘ Have you been able to contact Liam directly at all ? ’ said the invisible interviewer . |
| 24 | WP Have you been able to travel much ? |
| 25 | But had you been able to tuck away today 's maximum of £18 a month in 1982 , it would be £3,272 by now and all it would have cost you is £2,160 . |
| 26 | Have you been able to gather together the whole of your father 's former collection ? |
| 27 | Have you been able to complete the survey on belief , have you been able to get it done by a deadline . |
| 28 | Have you been able to complete the survey on belief , have you been able to get it done by a deadline . |
| 29 | Have you been able to advise her ? |
| 30 | Sir I commend to you the expert evidence relating to the historic character and I hope sir when you visit this site , although it may look very different at this moment from the way it would have done had you been able to visit it after the originally scheduled date of this enquiry , when the daffodils were out , |