Example sentences of "we 've [be] unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been unable to give a name to Graham 's condition because we 're mystified by it , ’ he says . |
| 2 | I feel very uncomfortable therefore , to sit in a room full of members , sitting here proposing to add five percent to the limit for members allowances , simply because we 've been unable to control our own behaviour , and to come in within that , I think it 's a very poor example , and it 's an example that I 'm not prepared to set . |
| 3 | But we 've been unable to track down an official aid organisation which has worked with her . |
| 4 | He certainly does n't like publicity and we 've been unable to track him down . |
| 5 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |