Example sentences of "able [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 2 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 3 | It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next . |
| 4 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 5 | Yet if part of the problem at Ibrox in respect of injury has been caused by the addition of European Champions league matches to an already congested domestic schedule , it is only Vogts 's good fortune that no German side was able to make it to the last eight of the European Cup . |