Example sentences of "[been] able [verb] up [art] " in BNC.

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1 One reason is that owners are often stronger than intruders , which are animals too weak to have been able to set up a territory .
2 He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed .
3 Mr Fallon was told some forces in previous years have not been able to take up the extra posts , which have then been redistributed to other places .
4 Although badly injured with four bullets inside him , PC Kelly had been able to call up the SOS code number , ‘ ten nine , ten nine ’ .
5 Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times .
6 This hopefully will cause them a fixture congestion around April/May with us hopefully been able to pick up the pieces .
7 There were other reasons for insecurity , too : no matter how much material prosperity had come a family 's way , there was still every chance that illness or a premature death might send them all back down a snake at a much faster speed than they had been able to climb up a ladder .
8 ‘ He and John have n't been able to strike up an amicable relationship since and David does n't seem to figure in the coach 's plans , ’ said chairman Robinson .
9 Parsys Ltd has at last been able to follow up the statements of intent it issued over a year ago with the formal announcement of its Inmos Ltd T9000 Transputer-based SN9000 series parallel computers .
10 Parsys Ltd has at last been able to follow up the statements of intent it issued over a year ago with the formal announcement of its T9000-based SN9000 series parallel computers .
11 He was a hard worker , but Jane marvelled at how he had been able to build up a business while remaining practically unintelligible .
12 In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality .
13 Detetives still have n't been able to build up a description of the attacker but they believe he may have worked with horses in the past .
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