Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [adv] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 2 | Mr Rodger Bell QC , for Mr Bewick , suggested that his client had a ‘ bee in his bonnet ’ about surgeons being able to work anywhere at a drop of a hat . |
| 3 | Are you able to come out at the weekend with us ? ’ |
| 4 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 5 | She could have hired a team of professionals to do the work , of course , but she 'd wanted to be able to look round at the end of it all and know she 'd done it . |
| 6 | In this it surpassed all that Lanfranc had been able to achieve even at the height of his influence in 1072 . |
| 7 | Provided he could use the motion , he might be able to rock away at the melancholy and eventually shift it off its fierce sticking point . |