Example sentences of "[be] able [to-vb] [pron] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is fine , provided you are able to rouse yourself again for dinner ! |
| 2 | Nothing had ever been able to keep her down for long — another advantage of her Arian birth-sign , her mother would have insisted . |
| 3 | I thought you 'd be able to put it right for us . ’ |
| 4 | We may be able to put it off for a while , but make that decision , we have got to , some day or another . |
| 5 | You wo n't be able to keep it up for more than a week . ’ |
| 6 | If I can only think back to that precise moment , and recover all the necessary ambient data , I 'll be able to figure it out for myself . |
| 7 | sort of get that er sort of er get a , a neat copy run off we might be able to get it down for repro to reprographics in time for er Tuesday week with a bit of luck |
| 8 | If you can imagine someone losing their job , the depression that actually causes , perhaps both within them and with their family , the idea of being able to take them away for a holiday to forget about things might be a good thing at the end of the day . |