Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It looked pretty derelict when I bought it but the quality of materials and craftsmanship in those days was superb and I was able to restore it back to its original condition , apart from a few new components . ’ |
| 2 | If the tile has simply slipped out of place but is undamaged ( that is , it still has its hanging ‘ nibs ’ on the back ) , you should be able to slide it back into place after easing up the surrounding tiles under wood wedges . |
| 3 | You are also likelier to be able to carry it through with you at airport check-ins . |
| 4 | It is essential ‘ to appreciate other people 's points of view but to be able to swing them round to yours if necessary ’ , a social skill which must be practised in an extremely wide range of relationships . |
| 5 | When the Company entered the dynastic politics of southern India by putting forward a candidate of its own in the Carnatic , the French were soon able to drive him back to Trichinopoly and beseige him there . |
| 6 | Anyway , he left what should have been my share to Matthew on condition that I was able to lease it back at a nominal rental . |
| 7 | But I consider myself perfectly competent to be able to go to court , make applications for remand , make pleas of mitigation where there 's a guilty plea and also conduct a case in such a way as to be able to pass it over to someone else in the practice . |
| 8 | I wo n't always be able to bail you out of them . ’ |
| 9 | Cos I might be able to cart them off to Joanne and Emma to give them to their mum 's on Mother 's Day |
| 10 | The length of these umbilicals means that , in most cases , the tender can not tend the diver in the true sense , and may not be able to pull him back in an emergency . |
| 11 | It , it was , it was a disastrous weekend for the U's , what on earth are they going to do tonight , are they going to be able to pull it out of the hat and , and |
| 12 | He had assured her he would be able to lead her out of the forest , but so far they seemed only to have become tangled further in its mazy pathways . |
| 13 | Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 14 | No , he will be able to sort them out into a short-list of three or four for further interview . |
| 15 | ‘ The cards are being sent to the Welsh Office for Mr Redwood 's attention in batches as we are able to sort them out into community areas , ’ said campaign secretary Bryn Williams-Jones . |
| 16 | Pat Palmer would like to establish an emergency telephone chain in each Area and it is hoped that every Area Organiser will be able to set one up by the Autumn using the same overlap list as for collecting class statistics . |
| 17 | A little extra pressure and I would be able to fish it out with the hypodermic needle I had poised ready . |
| 18 | But Liza Tremayne was well aware that there were not all that many who would be able to help her out of her present predicament . |
| 19 | They turn up on church doorsteps in inner London hoping that the Church will be able to help them out in some way . |
| 20 | None of the organisations we contacted had large ranges to choose from but they might be able to help you out with information charts and publicity posters for a small or no charge . |
| 21 | With the girl 's clothes we should be able to trace her back at least to the point at which she was dropped during the night — or I hope so , after all that rain . |
| 22 | Bosch will be able to buy them out in 1996 for 20.4 times average earnings per share in the previous three years up to a maximum of 394p . |
| 23 | That 's what I said to that Ann , be able to get something on that somebody says that they have n't said it and be able to play it back to them . |
| 24 | Most of us have these harmless ‘ floaters ’ and are able to put them out of our minds . |
| 25 | Surgeons at nearby Stoke Mandeville Hospital were able to put it back on and have restored some movement . |
| 26 | Erm if you you will not be able to put it back after that date . |
| 27 | We may be able to put it off for a while , but make that decision , we have got to , some day or another . |
| 28 | In many ways , he would have preferred to have been able to give himself over to the delusion and accept it as truth ; but there seemed to be a definite boundary here , and it was n't his choice whether or not he crossed it . |
| 29 | And under the Master 's spell , Nietzsche too was able to ease himself out of his suspicions into something more like Wagner 's optimism . |
| 30 | Fortunately he saw a nice couple from the Ministry of Education and was able to guide her over to them . |