Example sentences of "not able [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not able to help you in that area . |
| 3 | The characters and their conjugal disjunction have indeed been generated out of a play of pronouns , out of ‘ words on a page ’ , for it is due to the lack they experience in each other that they are not able to constitute themselves through each other as subjects . |
| 4 | ‘ I was n't able to defend myself at all , I was just wanting to get it over with . ’ |
| 5 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 6 | If I was n't able to admit it to some old woman I 'd never see again and who did n't matter a scrap to me , how was I going to face it out for the rest of my life ? |
| 7 | The last heart attack had been a big one , and he was n't able to shrug it off this time . |