Example sentences of "[pron] had ever been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 2 | Comfort was Comfort , he reflected , and no one had ever been able to change her . |
| 3 | No one had ever been able to knock her for six , and if this man affected her at all it was because she disliked him so much . |
| 4 | But this was not so ; no one landing there had ever been able to get out and the nearest airport was 600 miles away . |
| 5 | All they had ever been able to do in the face of violence was to bend to it . |
| 6 | Harvey wondered whether he had ever been able to , even in the beginning . |
| 7 | The effect of such correction can , in some instances , be dramatic , as in the case of a child who , after receiving his first pair of spectacles , spent several evenings looking at the stars as it was the first time he had ever been able to see them . |
| 8 | He found it impossible to believe that he had ever been able to write a book or give a lecture , or advise a government . |
| 9 | I put my arm across his shoulders , and as he leaned against me for a moment and sobbed I wondered if he had ever been able to cry like this — like a little boy with somebody to comfort him . |
| 10 | Nothing had ever been able to keep her down for long — another advantage of her Arian birth-sign , her mother would have insisted . |
| 11 | None of us had ever been able to discover whether it was a deliberate effect , or the result of pure chance . |