Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had not been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 2 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 3 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
| 4 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 5 | But how sad that she had not been able to say that to the one person who really longed to hear it . |
| 6 | She explained that she had not been able to bring herself to discuss things with them , although she had managed to speak to her married brother , who had been very supportive and helpful . |
| 7 | She was bitterly sad that she had not been able to see her aunt before she died . |
| 8 | erm but , but certainly the , the er er the period has given the Communist Party er quite a large number of trained cadres which will be able to go out into the villages in a way that they had n't been able to in because it would , that was all too soon . |
| 9 | The JAC in Leeds admitted that it had not been able to counter the numbers going into dead-end jobs , and a similar admission was made by the Plymouth authorities . |
| 10 | Misys Plc , which said in January that it was in talks that could lead to it acquiring Burns Anderson Independent Network Plc ( CI No 2,081 ) , said yesterday that it had not been able to agree terms for the acquisition and that negotiations had therefore been terminated . |
| 11 | On leaving , he said that his only regret , was that he had n't been able to get round to everyone and say goodbye . |
| 12 | It had been Dr Rolleston 's great sorrow that he had not been able to help children who had come in with the dreaded Infantile Paralysis , not that any other professor in Europe had been able to do better than by careful nursing stop the paralysis spreading . |
| 13 | The minister 's one regret was that he had not been able to implement his scheme in full . |
| 14 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 15 | Michelangelo , da Vinci , Bellini , Caravaggio , Bernini — half the world 's art treasures in one country , and I had n't been able to travel beyond the walls of the Victoria and Albert . |
| 16 | What , really , has it done for Daisy — if I had not been able to help materially ? |
| 17 | But I can assure you that I would n't have lasted five minutes in what , by any standards , is a very tricky and difficult market if I had n't been able to cope with the work . |
| 18 | All that time , and she had n't been able to get him to look at her . |
| 19 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 20 | Anne had seen her going into my room , and she had n't been able to bear it . |
| 21 | With Julius , though , it had always been so very physical , and she had n't been able to stop herself from responding to that great flood of passion . |
| 22 | And if she had n't been able to judge this from their dress , she would have from their voices as , one following the other , they said , ‘ Good evening . ’ |
| 23 | She always said she could n't have gone to Brownies at all if she had n't been able to cycle , for the distance was too far for her to walk , and there was no bus . |
| 24 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 25 | At the end of the session , June Braithwaite said she had found it useful ; she had not needed to become hysterical , and he had not been able to leave and disappear into the kitchen . |
| 26 | It was normal to tear the shawl first so that its value would not tempt a profane person to violate the tomb ; but the shawl had been a beautiful one and he had not been able to bring himself to do that . |
| 27 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 28 | However , by May 1991 the Council of ( Foreign ) Ministers had still not agreed on the location of the Agency 's headquarters and it had not been able to start work . |
| 29 | When that happened it meant he was drunk , sprawled out on the sofa if he had n't been able to reach the bed . |
| 30 | If he had n't been able to , it does n't bear thinking about . ’ |