Example sentences of "she [verb] n't [been] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | was actually going to get the information for tonight but she has n't been able to and I have n't seen her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Previously she had n't been able to work out whether he was or not . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had n't been able to read the signature at the bottom of the page , and that seemed wrong , somehow . |
| 8 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 9 | She had been interrupted , she had n't been able to make him understand exactly what had happened to Christina . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All that time , and she had n't been able to get him to look at her . |
| 12 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 13 | No wonder she had n't been able to find the door handle . |
| 14 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had n't been able to decide whether he looked Mediterranean , Middle Eastern , or simply overwhelmingly , barbarously alien … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She had n't been able to save Antoinette . |
| 19 | Anne had seen her going into my room , and she had n't been able to bear it . |
| 20 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 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 | All those nights when she had n't been able to sleep seemed to be catching up with her . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She 'd known that it was childish behaviour on her part , but she had n't been able to help herself . |
| 25 | She had n't been able to stomach a great deal at breakfast , not after everything that had happened ; now she was starving . |
| 26 | The truth was she had n't been able to face it . |
| 27 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
| 28 | And when she had helped Carole to put Emma and Sophie to bed she had n't been able to prevent tears coming to her eyes while she had listened to them solemnly saying their prayers . |
| 29 | She had n't been able to prevent herself from burying her face in the soft wool — and almost groaning out loud in agony as she 'd inhaled the strongly male , musky scent of his cologne . |
| 30 | At the time it had been easy enough to make the pledge he had demanded , since she had n't been able to imagine a situation where she would ever want to attack anyone . |