Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive had got so used to being able to fool everyone in this circle that he was unnerved by her obvious clear-sightedness . |
| 2 | In the Hankses ' cottage , Tom rubbed the steam from the window and peered outside , able to see nothing but heavy snowflakes melting against the windows . |
| 3 | You would n't be able to write anything with any merit at all if you were constantly trying to portray certain groups in a favourable light . ’ |
| 4 | Should the weather be unkind , or fish reluctant to rise , then I am sure that I will be able to find plenty of other sea-borne activities to keep me fully occupied ; and , hopefully , merrily amused . |
| 5 | In many cases they are not able to remember anything at all about the earlier incidents and so all they have are those inner feelings with nothing to counteract them . |
| 6 | McGiven said : ‘ I 'd like to think we 've improved since then , but on his day Le Tissier is virtually unplayable and able to create anything at any time . ’ |
| 7 | She said : ‘ I like to make people laugh and always wanted to be able to do something for elderly and lonely people . ’ |
| 8 | You could see his brain working I must be able to do something about this , he was thinking , but there was no rule against hair colour , only length . |
| 9 | But we might be able to do something by internal reshuffling at the clinic . |
| 10 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 11 | Since no one seems able to do anything with these people they wo n't mind what I get up to , tee-hee ! ’ |
| 12 | Which he may not be able to do anything for that week but it will ring a bell loud and clear the following weeks . |
| 13 | Or you 're likely not to be able to do anything at all . |
| 14 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 15 | ‘ There was someone outside the kitchen window when I arrived , ’ said Finn placidly , apparently pleased to be able to contribute something to this limited discussion . |
| 16 | We badly needed new hymns , more critically translated , and I , with a Burmese colleague , was able to add something like eighty new hymns . |
| 17 | However , if I was going to be able to maintain anything like good water quality , an essential requirement in any marine aquarium , my basic marine tank had to be a minimum size of 900 × 380 × 300mm ( 36″ × 15″ × 12″ ) with a capacity of 104 litres ( 23 gallons ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Right now , although the determinals in industrial specialization within countries , alright , now although you ca n't really define that , you might be able to say something about industrial specialization . |
| 20 | he was surprised at himself , at first , for feeling grateful , for being able to feel anything at all . |
| 21 | They may be able to make something of that , and they deserve the best luck going for them . |
| 22 | He looked at this wonderful thing and said : ‘ I wonder if our Germans will ever be able to make anything like this ? ’ |