Examples of 'had been able' in a sentence

Meaning of "had been able"

had been able - Refers to a past ability or capacity to do something

How to use "had been able" in a sentence

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had been able
If only somebody had been able to stop them.
He had been able to make only a partial recovery.
Nonethe students had been able to see anything.
Had been able to goad her into talking.
And nobody had been able to stop us.
Had been able to escape the franchise.
But no laboratory had been able to show it experimentally.
Had been able to have the other.
A the jeep had been able to stop.
I had been able to sign petitions with no problem.
I wish my brother had been able to come.
They had been able to drive up anything in her.
It was due to this that he had been able to enter.
If i had been able to simply fly to australia.
If only such a conversation had been able to take place.

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He had been able to eat better and to exercise.
By what they had been able to save.
It had been able to participate in the offer.
Phrases which he had been able to understand.
I had been able to hold it together until then.
In an hour my uncle had been able to estimate our progress.
Had been able to find a lipstick not a model.
I only wish we had been able to get off all.
Had been able to concentrate on treating his leg.
From what i had been able to gather.
Would have destroyed him if he had been able to.
If only he had been able to read the book.
I wish a few largeish schools had been able to come.
If winters had been able to get rid of dike.
I believe that would have happened if we had been able to form government.
Sure she had been able to put it out.
It would have been different if our production facilities had been able to respond.
If only she had been able to defend herself.
These results demonstrated that the stents had been able to degrade.
It would had been able to predict this risk.
No one she had encountered had been able to do that.
No one had been able to create a complete genome.
The two adult occupants had been able to get out.
If he had been able to give the reason.
Maybe if we had been able.
If we had been able to have a baby.
She was frightened that they had been able to track her down.
She had been able to eat by herself.
No dermatologist had been able to assist.
Adam had been able to read some of the words.
It was so rare nobody had been able to find a copy.
Who had been able to give their testimony.
I wish the others had been able to come too.
We had been able to rent a car.
It would have been even better if had been able to recover our money.

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Examples of using Had
Had she dreamed of the garden so often
Then we knew we had the wrong guy
We had so much fun up on the mountain today
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