Example sentences of "was able [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better . |
| 2 | But the suspension also meant that Coker was able to whizz back to Oz for a two-week training camp in Brisbane with Queensland to return having served his time and he missed almost none of the domestic season . |
| 3 | By Tuesday , he was able to venture out of doors for the first time since arriving home , late and ailing , on Thursday night . |
| 4 | Just as Wunis Abdulhadi was able to opt out among friends , but knew that in a conflict he could not walk down the street without danger of attack from Zuwaya , so ‘ the obligation to fight ’ arose from people 's perception that their opponents would assume the worst possible case — — that everyone who had a theoretical obligation to fight would do so . |
| 5 | The final quarter was virtually all Zimbabwe , although lock Phil Davies was able to charge through for Wales ' fourth try seven minutes from time , which Jenkins again converted . |
| 6 | It was a strongly-built castle on an excellent defensive site and the garrison of thirty knights was able to hold out against Richard 's artillery train for nearly two months , but eventually its lord , Arnald de Boville , was forced to capitulate . |
| 7 | He was able to pass on to Nicholson authoritative recollections of seeing huge worms crawl out of biscuits , eating a plum that was alive , seeing his wife sitting beside herself and all that kind of hallucinatory experience . |
| 8 | In a remnant of old forest I came on some grazing deer and quickly dropped to ground and crawled in under a small bank where I was able to stay out of sight , out of smell , and enjoy a very good look at the herd . |
| 9 | Did he feel better or worse that neither the genuine Matthew Prescott nor the spurious Michael Watney was able to get through to Alexandra ? |
| 10 | He decided to invade England and landed his troops at Hastings on the south coast , and had established a good bridgehead before the news reached Harold and he was able to journey down from Yorkshire . |