Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] [be] able to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , she was too scared to go back to sleep even if she had been able to . |
| 2 | It is possible that a greater difference would have emerged if we had been able to age-match the Crohn 's disease and control groups , as age has been shown to be inversely correlated with intestinal blood volume . |
| 3 | But he could not move and , even if he had been able to , he knew that the Robemaker could fell him in a breath-space by sorcery . |
| 4 | If he had been able to , how gladly he would have hired himself out to either of the wealthy men whose daughters had died . |
| 5 | He moved on up the street , or would have moved on if he had been able to . |