Example sentences of "who [vb past] [been] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The truest Plagiarism is the truest Poetry ’ , claims Thomas Chatterton , warming to Ackroyd 's theme , and perhaps overdoing it , along with Ackroyd 's Wilde , who had been able to believe that ‘ almost all the methods and conventions of art and life found their highest expression in parody ’ . |
| 2 | It was another miracle that it was so near the hospital , and that the driver of the car , who had been able to step out of it without any aid , had in fact been a Fitzwilliam Square doctor himself , who had known exactly what to do . |
| 3 | This situation had been carefully noted by the inquisitive ill-natured Eleanor fuller who had been able , much to her satisfaction , to say on another occasion , ‘ It 's no use your keeping on going accidentally on purpose by Warreners farm . |
| 4 | In her first term at St Cecilia 's there 'd been a girl who 'd had the gift of levitation , a disturbed girl called Julie who had been able to float eight feet above the ground , whom Miss Scuse had eventually had to have removed . |
| 5 | It was not only that enclosures forced some small-holders into the ranks of the landless and into wage-dependency for the first time ; it was also the case that many who had been able partly to support themselves from small-holdings supplemented by access to common grazing for a beast or two lost that element of independence . |