Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you belong at the Foundling Hospital and we were only able to borrow you for a little while . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We wo n't be able to afford one for a couple of years yet . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Also their directors wont really be able to sack him for a few years . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |