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Example sentences for "had never been able"

  • That would be working miracles," said Samson.

  • Meanwhile the time for my father's departure arrived, which he became aware of, but not from me, for I had never been able to tell him of it.

  • I had never been able to get over loving Jane.

  • For no more than ten seconds had I gazed into her face, and the soul of her, the real woman behind the fair outwardness, had looked back into my eyes; but I had never been able to forget it.

  • Yet I had never been able to care for another woman.

  • She had always had great self-command--it was one of the things he most admired in her, one of his greatest grievances against her, because he had never been able to tell what she was thinking.

  • He had never been able to feel that SHE was living on.

  • She knew that he loved her, could not help knowing, for he had never been able to keep it out of his eyes and voice.

  • There was something at the base of that statue of his dreams that always troubled him, that the people always pointed at as they gazed; but he had never been able to make out what it was there at the base of the statue.

  • Yes, it had come to him--come to him at last, the base of that statue that he had never been able to see before.

  • He had never been able to do anything seriously, or even to make up his mind quite what great thing he was going to do.

  • All the interest which I had never been able to find in the soul, I found in what I only vaguely apprehended of the body.

  • There was a flash about them at times that moved people, a peculiarity withal that even her father had never been able to understand.

  • Indeed, he had never been able to reply to Jean Baptiste.

  • When the prelate bade him good-by that day, he had never been able to get out of his mind the idea that the other had convicted him in his own heart, and had purposely avoided his company.

  • He had never been able to interpret it, he could not now.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    had acquired; had already; had been; had bought; had ever been before; had gained; had got; had happened; had himself; had hoped; had killed; had learnt; had looked; had never seen her; had none; had not; had not been able; had now; had returned; had said; had seemed; had shown; had succeeded; had such; had time; had told