Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] been able " in BNC.
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| 31 | SHe 'd always been able to disassociate ‘ work ’ from pleasure , clients from lovers , but had been worried that the experience of Jahsaxa 's friends mauling hir might have intruded into this objectivity . |
| 32 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 33 | In the daylight Julie could see the holes in the road which , the previous night , she 'd only been able to feel . |
| 34 | She had even been able to effect an imperfect superimposition of her reality upon his own . |
| 35 | He had set down the bag of washing on the floor between his feet , for she had n't been able to manage the washing since last year 's fall . |
| 36 | Previously she had n't been able to work out whether he was or not . |
| 37 | For a long time after she had died , she had n't been able to think about her at all , it had been so awful , but now she could . |
| 38 | 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 . ’ |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | She had n't been able to read the signature at the bottom of the page , and that seemed wrong , somehow . |
| 41 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 42 | She had been interrupted , she had n't been able to make him understand exactly what had happened to Christina . |
| 43 | Last summer when she had gone in search of Andrzej 's son , she had n't been able to bring herself to speak to him . |
| 44 | All that time , and she had n't been able to get him to look at her . |
| 45 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 46 | No wonder she had n't been able to find the door handle . |
| 47 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 48 | This time the hoof caught me half way up the shin bone , She had n't been able to get so much height into it but it was just as painful . |
| 49 | She had n't been able to decide whether he looked Mediterranean , Middle Eastern , or simply overwhelmingly , barbarously alien … |
| 50 | He could see from her face that that really hurt , and also that it was something she had n't been able to work out satisfactorily for herself . |
| 51 | She had n't been able to save Antoinette . |
| 52 | Anne had seen her going into my room , and she had n't been able to bear it . |
| 53 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | All those nights when she had n't been able to sleep seemed to be catching up with her . |
| 56 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 57 | She 'd known that it was childish behaviour on her part , but she had n't been able to help herself . |
| 58 | She had n't been able to stomach a great deal at breakfast , not after everything that had happened ; now she was starving . |
| 59 | The truth was she had n't been able to face it . |
| 60 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |