Example sentences of "and [pron] had been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both parents had come to the open evening and she had been able to talk to them . |
| 2 | It was as if someone had been trapped inside and had kicked and beaten the door — perhaps without success — until the power had gone and they had been able to drive back down the hill . |
| 3 | Konstantin Charsky was a poet like herself , but much better known , and he had been able to gather quite a few western books . |
| 4 | He was used to such things , and he had been able to pass the time by fulfilling an old ambition , to read Edward Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the original English . |
| 5 | The office gossip had been quite useful in reassuring him on that point , and he had been able to view the uncomfortable ride in the lift with them in an encouraging new light . |