Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I think , ’ he said happily , ‘ that I , Pumblechook , was able to help in my small way , by taking you to play at Miss — ’ |
| 2 | Once I was able to escape from my orange box and ferret around among the other barrows , I quickly discovered that he was reckoned by the locals to be the finest trader in the East End . |
| 3 | ‘ I am one of those people ’ , he has said in the past , ’ who must take exercise not only to be able to give of my best , but just to survive — I mean , I ca n't function without it . |
| 4 | ’ Now I feel that I 'm able to fight for my full rights as a woman and as a human being … |
| 5 | I have been a lifelong Labour supporter , but I have to say that under the present Government I was able to save in my last years at work without seeing my savings disappear in inflation . |
| 6 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
| 7 | I am able to say to my right hon. Friend that I raised that matter with President Yeltsin very forcibly indeed . |
| 8 | I will be able to prove to my own satisfaction that you are lying , and we will have an unhappy business relationship . |