Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their father was one of the first beneficiaries , and the whole family was able to gather at his 100th birthday party . |
| 2 | Lawren was therefore well off and able to indulge in his favourite pastime of painting . |
| 3 | There he was able to indulge in his favourite recreation , fishing for salmon in the waters of the Wye . |
| 4 | More than anything , Wilson misses the fun and games that he should be able to enjoy with his three young children , and that he did enjoy , before the symptoms began . |
| 5 | The youth … is capable of having principles ; his religious and moral ideas can be cultivated , and he is able to attend to his own refinement . |
| 6 | He had wondered , also , how much the mediciner had been able to guess about his own mind and nature . |
| 7 | Let the Staff College student consider how Harris was able to conjure from his original strength of 374 front line aircraft , and in a few months have some 1,047 aircraft set course for Koln in order to devastate 600 acres of the city ( plus the admirals and generals in Whitehall ) . |
| 8 | She guessed he found it intriguing to be able to talk about his consuming interest in the sport with a girl who not only knew what he was talking about , but could actually offer opinions that were interesting . |
| 9 | Central to child-rearing from the cultural point of view , as we have seen , is that by the time he is six or seven the child should have been able to recapitulate within his own personal psychological development the development history of his culture . |
| 10 | So , on this interpretation , for the rehabilitated child , a children 's hearing might be able to look into his social background until the spent offence and after the rehabilitation period is completed , but would be unable to investigate the offence , the previous hearing or hearings , and the child 's response to supervision or training . |
| 11 | In his choice of contributor Lehmann was able to draw upon his wide-ranging contacts , for he had lived for a period in Vienna and had also travelled Europe in search of material . |
| 12 | This being so , Basil 's work amongst teachers extended well beyond the technical and creative considerations of teaching Art : to influencing and deepening the quality of personal relationships amongst those around him , especially through the warm human atmosphere he was able to imbue into his own , uniquely directed , residential courses . |
| 13 | Yet the image had addressed Jaq as if some outside force had been able to intervene in his holy trance through the agency of that Discordia card , hacking into the pack . |
| 14 | Mr Major will thereby be able to compete with his fellow ministers for Government funds for so much of sport which requires assistance . |
| 15 | Children love to discover that they can ‘ do ’ something new , and through the provision that is made and suggestions that are offered , each child is able to succeed at his own level . |
| 16 | It seems extraordinary to say , but it 's as if his emotions were still erm sort of adolescent , as if there was something in him which was never able to reconcile with his intellectual attitudes . |
| 17 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 18 | As a result , the copier ( the student ) becomes aware of the discriminative cues and so he is able to act as his own critic , thus advancing his learning with his own efforts , without further need of a teacher or critic . |
| 19 | In September 1944 he was able to return to his academic duties , but soon after the war ended he was stricken by chronic illness and did relatively little research thereafter . |
| 20 | However , the patient may be able to return to his own job , when he is sufficiently recovered . |
| 21 | Gaddis was able to return with his gashed head bandaged and Dent 's replacement , young wing forward John Hall , had a fine game . |