Example sentences of "was able [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles said he was fine and he was able to see out of the window , although it was remarkably small . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 , |
| 4 | So then I was able to go back to the library . ’ |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | After Mr Tipping discarded the throw-away chute , he went into free-fall and was able to link up with the cameraman at 5,000ft . |
| 7 | However , its subsidiary , Barclays Direct Mortgage Services , was able to come up with the sums in a matter of days . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm just really happy I was able to come back in the second and third sets , ’ said Sukova , who held three set points in the first set , including two in the tie-break , before Sanchez took the decider 9–7 . |
| 9 | Nicholson became a member of an elite group of chemists — the B-Club — in whose company he was able to keep up with the activities of Hofmann and his associates . |
| 10 | To a large extent of course the Queen was able to make up for the loss by grants of double , triple , and even quadruple subsidies , but in doing so she may have encouraged resistance . |
| 11 | Then he sat for a while on the aisle stand which was a box covering the auto-pilot , where he was able to look out through the nose . |
| 12 | Once we got to Heathrow airport I was able to get out of the car and stretch my legs as on travelling down to London I had fallen asleep with my knees on the floor and my head on the seat . |
| 13 | Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective . |
| 14 | Just to satisfy herself that he understood how it was he was able to build out of the vertical , the teacher asked if he could make a bent tower with wooden building blocks . |
| 15 | I worked my way — somewhat fearfully , I admit — into a gloomy stand of pines , and there found several fallen branches which I was able to drag back to the cave . |
| 16 | All the same , she felt relieved when , just before five , they finally returned to the villa again and she was able to step out of the boat on to dry land . |
| 17 | I was able to try out on the author of The Rise of the Meritocracy some local antidotes to the disease he had diagnosed a decade before . |
| 18 | In fact , one of Ramsay 's greatest achievements was in the atmosphere he was able to conjure up through the depiction of materials . |
| 19 | As Timothy West tells it , this was a moment as chilling as any Ken was able to conjure up in the theatre . |
| 20 | ‘ Against the odds , Simon was able to play on after the interval and was an instrumental part of our fight-back . |
| 21 | Being a combination of social worker , medical auxiliary , and teacher to these miners and their families meant that he was able to break out of the prison of his hateful loneliness . |
| 22 | When he bolted the door , pulled down the shutter , put the chairs on the tables , emptied the till and swept the floor he was able to walk through to the back , climb the stairs , sprawl into a big armchair and look at his collection of pictures , news cuttings , fan club items , record sleeves and signed photographs of Shirley Temple . |