Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv] been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has not been able to get any type of work since , despite applying for eight jobs a week . |
| 2 | was actually going to get the information for tonight but she has n't been able to and I have n't seen her . |
| 3 | She has only been able to distribute a few as yet , but they know that they 're there and are overjoyed at the prospect of getting them . |
| 4 | She 'd not been able to think what to say . |
| 5 | She could remember the bra , it had been rather a good black lace wired Kayser Bondor , of a line that appeared to have been discontinued , as she 'd never been able to find another . |
| 6 | In his arms , pressed close against the hard , powerful body she 'd never been able to banish from her mind , she forgot everything but him , knew nothing but the agonising joy of being in his arms . |
| 7 | Heaven knew , with an entire house to decorate , there was n't much time for sun-worshipping , but she 'd never been able to resist the lure of the warmth for long . |
| 8 | She 'd never been able to lie to Candy — the other woman knew her too well , could see through her straight away . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the daylight Julie could see the holes in the road which , the previous night , she 'd only been able to feel . |
| 12 | She had even been able to effect an imperfect superimposition of her reality upon his own . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Previously she had n't been able to work out whether he was or not . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She had n't been able to read the signature at the bottom of the page , and that seemed wrong , somehow . |
| 19 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 20 | She had been interrupted , she had n't been able to make him understand exactly what had happened to Christina . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All that time , and she had n't been able to get him to look at her . |
| 23 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 24 | No wonder she had n't been able to find the door handle . |
| 25 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had n't been able to decide whether he looked Mediterranean , Middle Eastern , or simply overwhelmingly , barbarously alien … |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had n't been able to save Antoinette . |
| 30 | Anne had seen her going into my room , and she had n't been able to bear it . |