Example sentences of "was able [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hundred thousand soldiers seems to have been the maximum any Hellenistic state was able to gather together for a decisive battle . |
| 2 | The Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate evacuated to Oxfordshire where three large houses were taken over in Goring-on-Thames and the school was able to carry on in a ‘ make-do ’ fashion . |
| 3 | By virtue of his connections , Mr Deng was able to re-emerge twice from political disgrace and is now able to rule China without formal power . |
| 4 | Indeed Saifullah Khan was able to report even from her data collected in the mid-1970s that some recent migrants , especially those best equipped to survive in Britain economically without the support of kin , already were considerably relaxing arrangements based on the purdah system . |
| 5 | On 24 May Cabon told Greenpeace she had to leave and returned to Paris where she was able to report fully on its plans . |
| 6 | Charles said he was fine and he was able to see out of the window , although it was remarkably small . |
| 7 | But your Report that it was a gas-lid — I was able to go ahead with it and I got compensation . ’ |
| 8 | In the case of the treaty it gave the opportunity for the Red Army to be created , which at a later date was able to go on to the offensive . |
| 9 | Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better . |
| 10 | Well , the thing I mainly notice when last week when Paul was home , not last week , the week before last I had Paul solidly at home , he moved himself entirely in lock , stock and barrel at the weekend , he was then with me waiting for his job and he went out every day and did little bit 's of shopping for me , got him from under my feet , saved me money , cos I was only buying what I absolutely needed , and the amount of time that I had , I mean I was able to go out for the whole day with Peggy on Wednesday , I was able to get food prepared and , admittedly I did n't manage to get as much done as I thought I was going to do , but then I think that 's with most people in life , |
| 11 | I was able to go home for Christmas with my new friends . |
| 12 | The librarian was able to go home in good spirits . |
| 13 | ’ And then mercifully he lost interest and fell asleep and I was able to go back to my researches in the library . |
| 14 | So then I was able to go back to the library . ’ |
| 15 | But the suspension also meant that Coker was able to whizz back to Oz for a two-week training camp in Brisbane with Queensland to return having served his time and he missed almost none of the domestic season . |
| 16 | He did n't have much time in his lodgings on the outskirts of the town , but when he was there he was able to lie down in his quiet , quiet room and totally relax . |
| 17 | With these proceeds he was able to return home to Polperro and purchase a small coasting schooner . |
| 18 | The Newcastle-based steel fabricator and erector contracted to carry out the steelwork went into receivership early in the operation but fortunately Bone , Connel & Baxters of Motherwell was able to take over at short notice and , says Alan Muir , ‘ did a great job ’ . |
| 19 | The group around Harry Pollitt and Palme Dutt was able to take over from the older leaders , Inkpin , Bell , and MacManus and to commit the Party to the new tactic of the " United Front from Below " . |
| 20 | This was so demonstrably unfair that SAVE was able to hit back by seeking leave for judicial review . |
| 21 | Then she was able to move on to paying all those bills that had accumulated . |
| 22 | Although the sun had risen it was still dusk between the trees , and Allen was able to move quickly from cover to cover keeping the Waste in view . |
| 23 | She was able to move safely from room to room in her house , and she could get up during the night to use her commode when necessary . |
| 24 | I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty , and my arm hurt like hell . |
| 25 | PETER WRIGHT , the Boroughmuir prop whose international career took off after he made the switch to loose-head , was able to reflect yesterday on how quickly fortunes can change in sport , writes Mike Aitken . |
| 26 | By Tuesday , he was able to venture out of doors for the first time since arriving home , late and ailing , on Thursday night . |
| 27 | A crab-apple tree broke his fall , and he was able to hang on to it , but his horse fell below and was killed . |
| 28 | Just as Wunis Abdulhadi was able to opt out among friends , but knew that in a conflict he could not walk down the street without danger of attack from Zuwaya , so ‘ the obligation to fight ’ arose from people 's perception that their opponents would assume the worst possible case — — that everyone who had a theoretical obligation to fight would do so . |
| 29 | From a massive deficit of £281mi1lion in 1984–5 , the year of the miners ' strike , the sector was able to recover quickly to break-even point and then achieve a handsome surplus of £69million in 1988–9 . |
| 30 | Just think what Stuttgart , say , was able to put together in just over a decade . |