Example sentences of "i have been able [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished I 'd been able to take a photograph of gaunt-face , but I 'd been more keen to listen . |
| 2 | Retracing my steps , I realized with a shock that I was no more able to find my way back to the village than I 'd been able to find the place we 'd been raking . |
| 3 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 4 | I knew that I could achieve results despite the difficulties , and I knew that I had been able to demonstrate the ability to work with people of other countries . |
| 5 | If I had been able to see a copy of the local Communist party paper , I would have learned that I — with many others — had been unmasked as a conspirator and an enemy of the state . |
| 6 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 7 | It was the first time I had been able to attend a pub meet at this particular hostelry , and I thought it was very nice , full of young people without being a noisy ‘ fun pub ’ . |
| 8 | I accept that you do n't want my condolences , but if I had been able to speak the right words , they would not have been insincere . ’ |
| 9 | It is possible for the race to be won at very long odds , and on two or three occasions , assisted by Wigg , I had been able to locate the winning horse , or at least a horse in the first three , which , if the odds were long enough , nevertheless produced a satisfactory result . |
| 10 | I had been able to have a couple of hours ' sleep here and there since the landings and , most important , I was able to move around more or less as I wanted to . |
| 11 | During the previous six months I had been able to keep a more watchful eye on the whereabouts of the elusive Charlie , thanks to the help of a young officer Daphne had introduced me to who worked in the War Office . |
| 12 | Before returning from England I had been able to recruit a very competent English journalist , F.W. Benton , who soon improved the quality of our English daily . |
| 13 | Over New Year I had been able to escape a constant anxiety that time was running out . |
| 14 | It 's the first time in all my life I 've been able to see the back of my nails from the palms of my hands . ’ |
| 15 | It 's the first time in years I 've been able to uncoil a little with Ali . |
| 16 | In the meantime I 've been able to complete the document and have pleasure in enclosing copy for your interest . |
| 17 | But seriously , there is something of a revival just like everywhere else at the moment , although blues has always had a strong following in Australia — that 's why I 've been able to make a living all these years . |
| 18 | I never had any money erm that would help me to get off benefit , I was caught in the benefit trap and now I 've been able to get a part time job , my husba ex-husband 's paying a reasonable amount and my children are better off . |
| 19 | see if you can find out who 's spending money down that area , and then a occasionally , not , not too often , jobs that he 's fell back on and dropped , I 've been able to get a little start on , and very foolishly I used to tell him sometimes of the progress I was making that was where I made a mistake . |
| 20 | have n't been doing them recently but when I 've been able to get a , er an evening away that 's what I |
| 21 | Most have replied and I have been able to draft a progress report which enables you to see what stage your councils have reached and how they match up to progress in other councils . |
| 22 | Along with other members of my family I have been able to take a cycle on trains from Edinburgh to Stirling or Dunblane . |
| 23 | But we both know , although I have n't said it , that the consequence of her unfaithfulness is that I have been able to take the high ground . |
| 24 | And because of the reduction in the national debt in the 1980s , I have been able to allow the so-called ‘ automatic stabilisers ’ — the increases in public spending and the reduction in tax receipts that directly reflect the weakness of the economy — to operate fully . |
| 25 | He suggests that ‘ as far as I have been able to grasp the concept , to be ‘ staff ’ means to have authority without having responsibility . |
| 26 | I have been able to do the washing cos I have n't been able |
| 27 | And it is only fairly recently — probably since my mother 's death — that I have been able to abandon the naive belief that such an apparently ‘ perfect ’ relationship is indicative of a good marriage . |
| 28 | So far I have been able to copy the index made by the South West Shropshire Historical & Archaeological Society , through the kind offices of Mrs Janet Preshous , a B C R S Member who wrote the excellent book ‘ Bishop 's Castle Well Remembered ’ and Mrs Halford , late of the County Records Office . |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose I have learned that I have been able to survive an experience such as this , which certainly I would not have bet on myself to do . |
| 30 | Since completing this book I have been able to obtain a cutting of rue and test its effect on my own cat . |