Example sentences of "able [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flow advances in a manner similar to that of pahoehoe flows on dry land , and the pillows are budded off so quietly that the cameramen were able to swim up to within less than a metre of the swelling pillows . |
| 2 | In the strength of that voice she was able to gather up her papers , push them into her satchel , and leave the room with perfect dignity . |
| 3 | Only long-stay patients will be able to light up after May 31 . |
| 4 | I understand that this scheme will be able to light up a town of about 30,000 people , just as my hon. Friend can today , almost single-handedly , light up her constituency . |
| 5 | Ceauşescu was not able to whip up any evidence of genuine enthusiasm for his destruction of churches . |
| 6 | Operating out of Rockswell and other quarries in the county , the three were able to carry up to five extra loads , worth between £40 and £50 , per week . |
| 7 | Operating out of Rockswell and other quarries in the county , the three were able to carry up to five extra loads , worth between £40 and £50 , per week . |
| 8 | If it rains , do you think that doll will be able to sit up under the hood of the pram ? |
| 9 | She was lying full length and was helped back on the platform and she was able to sit up and talk . ’ |
| 10 | His lace assumes a natural look he 's able to sit up and breathe more normally and for a time seems well My dear Dr Dunstaple , perhaps you could explain to us why , if the symptoms are caused , as you seem to believe , by damage to the lungs or by a poison circulating in the blood and depressing the action of the heart … why it 's possible that these symptoms should thus be suspended by an injection of warm water holding a little salt in solution ? " |
| 11 | When she returns from theatre she is rather sleepy but is allowed to take fluids as soon as she feels able to sit up in bed . |
| 12 | After a while , he was able to sit up in a chair , although he was still too weak to walk . |
| 13 | The occupational therapist had asked Esther 's husband to prepare a downstairs bathroom and toilet for Esther , as she thought she would never be able to go up and down stairs on her own . |
| 14 | When the train had started he would n't be able to go up there . |
| 15 | That 's what made us play up , people just sitting there , not able to go up to the STU [ occupational therapy ] because there was n't enough officers or staff to take us . |
| 16 | When you are ten you 'll be able to go up to Guides . |
| 17 | If she was put into skischool for half a day then one adult had to forgo any skiing for that period , since after delivering the child to the skischool meeting place in the centre of the village the travelling time to the slopes was too long to be able to go up , ski and be back down in time to pick up the child from the skischool in the centre of the village again at the end of her lesson . |
| 18 | I would have waited and bought one off Gary and then he would n't have been able to go up would he ? |
| 19 | The old cricket pavilion was demolished and then cobbled back together as a grandstand able to accommodate up to fifty spectators . |
| 20 | The Pinzgauer was able to drive up 600m of hillside and bring down 27-year-old John Richards . |
| 21 | You ought to be able to drive up here did n't you ? |
| 22 | He slowed as he came to the first of the two rows , leaning across the dashboard in order to be able to see up the slope . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , on the first night of the war he was able to round up a ring of twenty-one German spies in an effectively timed and executed coup which probably deprived the Germans of any information on Britain 's initial military dispositions . |
| 24 | ‘ I was able to soar up , to fly , I could rock in the air like that balloon , I could fly away with it , choose any of the four points of the compass , but I remained where I was , I stopped above this small , painful , blessed piece of earth . ’ |
| 25 | Even before the debate took place , The Times was able to sum up the situation accurately : |
| 26 | Expectations that hospitals would be able to work up detailed costings had been revised . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh dear , what a shame , ’ says Robyn , without being able to work up much genuine compassion for this misfortune . |
| 28 | Reynolds was a notable conversationalist , well able to stand up to his friends , who included Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke . |
| 29 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 30 | On being able to stand up to the USSR , Thatcher scored 80 per cent in the precampaign week , easing to 79 per cent in the last fortnight of the campaign . |