Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unable to avoid it , however , he faced O'Rourke in New Orleans where it became apparent that the Irishman had no idea of fighting ; Burke was able to hit him at will . |
| 2 | One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music . |
| 3 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 4 | I was able to accommodate him at each time , you follow what I mean . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yeah because I 'm doing second year abnormal from two til three so you might be able to catch me at three |
| 7 | ‘ Shall I be able to reach you at 1027 , Westminster Drive ? ’ she asked . |
| 8 | Because it was deemed to have been lost in antiquity , the finder was allowed to keep it , although happily the British Museum was able to buy it at auction . |
| 9 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 10 | It 's on the theme of families and you 'll be able to use it at Pack meetings . |
| 11 | No one was able to give us at that time the valuable advice which I only picked up years later , namely that the great danger in cholera was dehydration , necessitating that the sufferer be given frequent drinks of cold water previously boiled . |
| 12 | Sandison wondered what Elsie would be wearing , whether he would be able to recognise her at all . |
| 13 | You will be able to study them at length and note at what depth they are feeding . |
| 14 | She was able to repeat them at the trial of the young man — and he was sentenced to seven years in prison . |
| 15 | Sue insisted that we take her telephone number and told us that we should feel able to ring her at any time , day or night , with any problem , however trivial it seemed . |
| 16 | Traditionally the merchant banks have been the main financial advisers in a merger or acquisition deal — they traded very much on their reputation for knowing all the right people and being able to approach them at any time . |
| 17 | Using my 7 × 50 binoculars I was able to locate it at once , though I would not have had the slightest hope of finding it had I not been told exactly where it was . |
| 18 | Once you 're married , you 'll be able to have her at your beck and call twenty-four hours a day . ’ |
| 19 | Well if you have bacon now you wo n't be able to have it at the weekend . |
| 20 | You 'll cope with it but you 've got ta buy , your moonboots we should be able to get the market Jill said around , I mean we can get them in cash and carry for nine ninety nine but we should be able to get them at Blackbushe market for five to six ninety nine . |
| 21 | Good thatch is difficult to obtain in many parts of the world , and in the Indian State of Kamataka peasants now have to buy bamboo at 1200 rupees a tonne on the free market ( about £80 a tonne ) whereas the paper industry is still able to get it at 15 rupees a tonne ( £1 ) from the government 's reserved forests . |
| 22 | ‘ There is n't a man in Britain who would be able to touch him at lightweight or light middleweight , ’ he said . |
| 23 | But I found it too embarrassing to keep suggesting to a fellow professional that he should take time off from his own work to accompany me to functions where he was not able to join me at the dinner table when he got there . |
| 24 | To everyone — may I wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year , and hope as many of you as possible will be able to join us at our annual conference , 3rd–6th June 1993 at the Peebles Hotel Hydro , Peebles , Scotland . |
| 25 | The enzymes are specialized proteins which enable the body to carry out at body heat and atmospheric pressure complex reactions which , if man were able to reproduce them at all , would require high temperatures and high pressures to accomplish . |
| 26 | I hope that the Minister will be able to tell us at whose discretion all the information is passed on — mainly with a view to protecting the officer concerned , if any risk is posed to him , but also with a view to protecting the individual from being treated in a different way by that officer . |
| 27 | ‘ Well I 've read a bit of it , mainly in order to be able to quote it at Communist opponents , who 've never read it . ’ |