Example sentences of "[prep] be able go " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he recovered , and following the siege of Worcester had the great joy of being able to go and see his friends at Kidderminster once again . |
| 2 | Two of these were things she did alone : she enjoyed the freedom of being able to go swimming when she wanted , on her own , without needing to rely on others and collecting antiques was also a very personal hobby . |
| 3 | And that was my problem with it was that I was in much in terms of being able to go into the classroom an and talk to the kids and have a really good relationship with the teachers and things . |
| 4 | plus you have n't got the convenience of being able to go and get in your car |
| 5 | There is , true enough , no bank to poke into — get round the first headland and the next bank is the shore of Svalbard — but it would still be a good idea to be able to go in a straight line . |
| 6 | They like to be able to go to a show and to be able to see something that they do n't see in their everyday lives — you know , catching the bus to go work or coming home on the bus . |
| 7 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 8 | Val was more indignant than Roland about this event , and her indignation upset him as much as his own failure , for he liked Fergus and wanted to be able to go on liking him . |
| 9 | Training alone has never bothered me at all , but it 's nice to be able to go down the pub for a good chinwag after a session . ’ |
| 10 | You must think yourselves lucky to be able to go to Thrush Green as often as you do . ’ |
| 11 | I was sad not to be able to go back to Fulham for St Cecilia 's Day . |
| 12 | Also , not to be able to take part in things and not to be able to go out in the evening I find difficult . |
| 13 | ‘ Within an hour the headache had vanished , the sickness was fading and I felt bright enough to be able to go out . ’ |
| 14 | We 're not going to be able to go on as we are . |
| 15 | I asked Joyce what aspect of her phobia she felt still remained and she said that she would like to be able to go into an open space such as a park , where there were likely to be many more birds around . |
| 16 | She wants to be able to go ahead with their plans for a family even if he dies . |
| 17 | Benny was going to be able to go to University College , Dublin , to study for a BA degree because her parents had saved to pay for her . |
| 18 | He hoped greatly to be able to go to Oxford in the autumn ; there should be enough money from a sale to support his mother , his brother and himself till he obtained a degree and could earn his living . |
| 19 | Magazines are fine , but you want to be able to go into bookshops and have access to other people 's minds and lives through fiction . |
| 20 | ‘ All I want is to be able to go out and play with my friends , ’ she says . |
| 21 | But it has only been half successful because everyone wants to be able to go everywhere . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's hardly petty to want to be able to go for a walk along a public right of way . |
| 23 | But I consider myself perfectly competent to be able to go to court , make applications for remand , make pleas of mitigation where there 's a guilty plea and also conduct a case in such a way as to be able to pass it over to someone else in the practice . |
| 24 | I used to be able to go to a park and swim , or check out a ball to play with , because they had a part-time supervisor there , then they take that away and the park becomes a land mass , then it becomes a turf , you see ? |
| 25 | I realised that I was lucky to be able to go to England and teach . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've come too far from the ways of men to be able to go back now … but we must get away from that sea ! ’ |
| 27 | You used to be able to go along to a pottery , say , and say , ‘ What was going on here at about eight o'clock this morning ? ’ … |
| 28 | Alright , I mean there 's I think we 've got more responsibilities where the husband tends to be able to go away and do that a lot easier than what a woman would be able to do . |
| 29 | From right from the time office er I used to go into blacksmith shop to mash tea because that 's where we used to We used to be able to go and take the cam for the timekeeper and I was in the stores too , and er mash the tea in the forge They put the kettle on the forge you see ? |
| 30 | And er then er these two erm er Then when we used to when we was the young you used to be able to go down to Skeggie for a day on train for two and six . |