Example sentences of "i have [be] able [verb] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Over New Year I had been able to escape a constant anxiety that time was running out . |
| 8 | It 's the first time in years I 've been able to uncoil a little with Ali . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | have n't been doing them recently but when I 've been able to get a , er an evening away that 's what I |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Along with other members of my family I have been able to take a cycle on trains from Edinburgh to Stirling or Dunblane . |
| 15 | Since completing this book I have been able to obtain a cutting of rue and test its effect on my own cat . |