Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [adv] been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if I had no longer been able to see the real images in my mind I could see their representations as clearly as if they hung before me , and the two were beginning to run together . |
| 2 | I was so innocent that in spite of our so-called training , of all the propaganda , I had never really been able to believe that someone might want to kill me . |
| 3 | That drastic formula meant , for instance , that the ballet turned out to be full of controlled balances on one leg , which until then she had just not been able to sustain . |
| 4 | The letters had made her angry , though at first she had simply not been able to believe them . |
| 5 | Their vulnerability was like a gaping hole in the cloak of professionalism she had always otherwise been able to build around her . |
| 6 | And yet somehow the thing was still able to consume and digest the normal fats and proteins , converting them to energy , in a complex manner which they had never really been able to explain . |
| 7 | Loren was upstairs , engaged in that long getting-ready process that he 'd never quite been able to fathom . |
| 8 | He had never before been able to be quite so frank with anyone about his innermost feelings . |
| 9 | How he had never really been able to write because of her . |
| 10 | He had still not been able to talk to Majorie about the adoption . |
| 11 | By seven , after more coffee and a cigar , he had still not been able to bring any order to his confusion of thoughts . |