Example sentences of "she [vb past] be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was lucky she 'd been able to keep it a secret all along . |
| 2 | It was their ritual , ever since she 'd been able to string words together . |
| 3 | On Starr Hills , she 'd been able to talk to him ; but she did n't think she could now . |
| 4 | Till now she 'd been able to cope , after a fashion ; even going dumb with terror had been a way of coping . |
| 5 | Adele had looked up at him , not quickly but as quickly as she 'd been able . |
| 6 | Her early education had been poor because of the misconception amongst her teachers that language ability and intelligence were somehow different facts of a single concept , and it was only in later life , with the help of her husband , that she 'd been able to make up on the intellectual deprivation of those early years . |
| 7 | They gave the bare details of Jenner 's life and career as far as she 'd been able to check it out — dates , addresses , all the useful stuff that Reynolds could work from — followed by a surprising amount of straight campus gossip . |
| 8 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 9 | If only she 'd been able to ask him why , perhaps it would have been more bearable . |
| 10 | Some of the words did not even make sense to her but , through the confusion , she 'd been able to salvage enough to piece together roughly the contents . |
| 11 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 12 | In a strange way , she felt cleansed , as though she 'd been able to strip the dark places away from her soul . |
| 13 | Wishing desperately that she were able to defend her grandfather , but knowing that to explain would only cause more trouble until she 'd been able to speak with his mother , and fervently wishing she had locked her door when she 'd come up to bed , Ellie said tiredly , ‘ I do n't know why . |
| 14 | The second problem was her aversion to handing out money to charity ; although she enjoyed being able to help specific ventures in a practical way she hated the idea of charity balls or making large cash handouts . |
| 15 | She loved being able to run over meadows and explore woods and paddle in streams , but she did n't like the cows she sometimes came upon suddenly filling a lane ; the great horned beasts scared her . |
| 16 | She brought with her in the car anything of mine that she had been able to find in the house ( plus a few things that just reminded her of me ) and they were all dumped in my front hall . |
| 17 | Once upon a time , she had been able to withstand Florentine summers better than any English woman she knew but of late they had begun to tire her , to make her feel that in everything she did she was pushing a large boulder up a hill . |
| 18 | The stomach cramps had been coming back , off and on , all day , but so far she had been able to keep them under control . |
| 19 | In her flat with Anne , and in the taxi , she had been able to conceal her pain from the older woman . |
| 20 | Anne felt an urge to throw the kind of temper tantrum she had been able to get away with when she was six years old . |
| 21 | Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment : |
| 22 | On most nights she had been able to sleep without taking the hypnotic . |
| 23 | She had been able to cope with the sale of her house . |
| 24 | When she had been able to plan her charity lunches and her dinner parties , go shopping , gossip with friends , look at her life and know that at last she had achieved all she had ever wanted , even If sometimes it was a little lonely , a little empty ? |
| 25 | Frankly , it had amazed him that she had been able to ride at all that afternoon , given how wasted she was the previous night , but then she was quite a determined little thing . |
| 26 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 27 | This time she contacted me again after just a week to say that , for the first time , she had been able to buy clothes for her children in a certain famous store rather than having to rely on ordering from a mail order firm . |
| 28 | It was the first time she had been able to grant his wish and take him to visit Santa Claus in a large department store , and that made it for her the happiest Christmas she could remember . |
| 29 | There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul . |
| 30 | She had been able to begin , a little , to live her own life . |