Example sentences of "[been] able [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice was harsh and nasal , as if it had had to fight a stiff battle around the bridge of his nose before it had been able to emerge at all . |
| 2 | Sadly , the only conclusion I 've been able to arrive at since Mr Lamont did his bit , is that the sooner I become a recluse with a string of racehorses the better and that ca n't be right . |
| 3 | I think if I 'd had er no teeth I would n't have been able to manage at all , or if I had |
| 4 | She 's not been taking them , she 's been able to sleep at night but she 's sleeping all day and all . |
| 5 | She had n't been able to sleep at all the night before for thinking of him , and some of her thoughts had been unprintable . |
| 6 | Indeed they were given a meal , more substantial than any they had been able to enjoy at Berwick for a while , before they set off again . |
| 7 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 8 | But the only reason the Lewis conference in Barcelona was held in a tiny sweat box rather than the air-conditioned Olympic press centre was because his Japanese sponsors would not have been able to advertise at the latter venue . |
| 9 | But one Moscow designer , at least , has been able to look at the familiar with a fresh eye and use the symbols of Soviet power with wit and imagination . |
| 10 | ‘ All they have been able to look at is the basic framework , ’ Townsend told Community Care after the inspectors ended their five-day visit on Monday of this week . |
| 11 | He would have been able to look at Bracton and the medieval law as well as at Lord Castlehaven 's case . |
| 12 | This beautiful Old English Sheepdog had n't been able to compete at Crufts this year because his co-owner had been judging . |
| 13 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 14 | Neither journalists nor ordinary voters have been able to get at him . |
| 15 | The point , however , is that to build a house that stands up requires a knowledge of where every bit goes and what it does — and that knowledge is an order of magnitude and greater than one would have been able to guess at . |
| 16 | If I 'd been able to guess at the future , the turning point would have been right there — wheeling the ship around and moving as fast as possible away from anything to do with Fraxilly . |
| 17 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 18 | Neither Stuart McCall nor Richard Gough , who withdrew from Scotland 's squad for the game with Malta , have been able to train at Ibrox and must be considered unlikely to play at Tannadice . |
| 19 | Frankly , it had amazed him that she had been able to ride at all that afternoon , given how wasted she was the previous night , but then she was quite a determined little thing . |
| 20 | But on these rare occasions the frontier posts protecting Blanche 's personality had been unmanned , and Dexter had been able to wander at will through her past and her present . |
| 21 | By allowing Tepilit to engage in the formalities of gift exchange , she may have been able to observe at close quarters how it worked , but she was also entering into the drama . |
| 22 | As a result of this the club has been able to run at a constant level of activity . |