Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 2 | But you belong at the Foundling Hospital and we were only able to borrow you for a little while . |
| 3 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 4 | Then her father and two brothers will be able to see her for the first time in seven months . |
| 5 | And even if I did have and had a mustard seed here , you still would n't be able to see it for a mustard seed is no bigger than a pin head . |
| 6 | We wo n't be able to afford one for a couple of years yet . |
| 7 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 8 | He predicts that , within two years or so , people will be able to buy it for the price of a cheap piano . |
| 9 | Also their directors wont really be able to sack him for a few years . |
| 10 | The information was n't either was n't available to him or was not understood by him and he was n't able to interpret it for the board . |
| 11 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 12 | Oh I wo n't be able to get it for the following day . |
| 13 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
| 14 | The seventeen pensioners who were able to join us for the annual get-together enjoyed themselves immensely and are already looking forward to next year 's trip ! |
| 15 | If it does n't work out , no-one including yourself will be able to blame you for the breakdown of your marriage . |
| 16 | If it does n't work out , no one including yourself will be able to blame you for the breakdown of your marriage . |