Example sentences of "able [to-vb] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's it 's not about being able to get rid of them totally and we agree that we need some sort of level of arousal it 's being able to perform despite them to use that arousal to put into an effective presentation , and that 's what this two days is about is getting those butterflies for you to fly in formation . |
| 2 | Then they might be able to bowl like them . |
| 3 | They had run into a few mobs of scuffling Haitians , but fortunately , they were mostly without firearms and so the Doctor and Howard had been able to drive through them , sending the mobs scurrying out of their way . |
| 4 | Her mother used to hang them from a hook in the kitchen ceiling in order to be able to work round them . |
| 5 | clients are , are tapped into it , and we should be able to communicate with them at the press of a button . |
| 6 | She , speaking Slovene , had managed to understand their primitive Russian , and they were delighted to have found a civilian who was able to communicate with them a little , and who reminded them of their mothers . |
| 7 | It is essential , but not always obvious , that R&D workers should understand what accountants do sufficiently to be able to communicate with them and on occasion to negotiate change in the detail of how they do it . |
| 8 | It is essential , but not always obvious , that R&D workers should understand what accountants do sufficiently to be able to communicate with them and on occasion to negotiate change in the detail of how they do it . |
| 9 | Her father was in the anteroom , waiting for her with a dour face and uneasy eyes , but so closely attended by page and chamberlain that barely a word beyond her submissive greeting and his mumbled acknowledgement , phrased as a blessing but uttered like a malediction , was able to pass between them . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ If I tell you where I sold it you are going to go to those people and I wo n't be able to sell to them any more . |
| 11 | ‘ You just have to be able to identify the good punters , ’ they say , ‘ the really big hitters , and be able to talk to them , and that 's it basically . ’ |
| 12 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 13 | Both parents had come to the open evening and she had been able to talk to them . |
| 14 | His extraordinary personal library of cuttings , plus his first-hand knowledge — ‘ I have been lucky enough now , of course , to be able to talk to them and to those who know them well , and to see inside their homes ’ — makes Vickers one of our foremost Royal watchers . |
| 15 | He was concentrating furiously now , for , he thought , if I know of these places , then surely it must be because people have been able to talk of them . |
| 16 | ‘ An additional bonus that will save our men 's lives , since no one will be able to shoot at them , ’ von Stein shouted . |
| 17 | The control of the state apparatus , the manipulation of elections , the granting of privileges , and the control of violence often rendered the political class relatively autonomous and independent of interests or at least able to discriminate among them |
| 18 | She would be able to look at them , and not only observe that the noble d'Urberville family had lost its greatness , but also remember that a poor descendant had lost her innocence . |
| 19 | She now remembered how she had criticized her mother for bringing babies into the world without being able to look after them . |
| 20 | ‘ When Benn beat Galvano he was caught with counters but was able to walk through them because the Italian was not a puncher . |
| 21 | So as you feel happier with that , you 'll b more able to play with them . |
| 22 | Then you wo n't be able to play with them will you ? |
| 23 | Be nice to be able to play with them . |
| 24 | Farmers needed to identify likely emergency situations on their farms and ensure that there was somebody able to cover for them in their absence . |
| 25 | : Fb The kind of erm cinema that will have being two-screens , it 's going to allow the sort of variety that probably the Regal in the past was n't able to give to them , because we can as a policy have a constantly erm a constant turnover of different films . |
| 26 | The Road Running Commission will have a chairman and secretary elected at the AGM , and most importantly , only road runners will be able to vote for them . |
| 27 | They were sparse , little more than a wide and overgrown hedge , but at least no dragon would be able to fly through them . |
| 28 | it will be able to interpret for them what these numbers mean in the middle bit . |
| 29 | The idea was that , by raising the standards of these deprived areas , the children in them would be brought up to the levels of those in more privileged communities , and would then be able to compete with them on equal terms later in their educational careers . |
| 30 | The fact that at times the child seems well able to respond to them reinforces their view that their child is being naughty . |