Example sentences of "able [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How lucky that you were able to arrange it , ’ said Ianthe , not in the least sarcastically . |
| 2 | I would hope that we might be able to arrange it but obviously if it is er out of the question , then we 'd have to try to rearrange it some other time . |
| 3 | You wo n't be able to miss it . |
| 4 | At least it was comforting to know that he would n't consider her compliance ‘ cheap ’ or despise her for the speed with which he had been able to seduce her . |
| 5 | I 'm able to hit them because they 're trying to get me . |
| 6 | Unable to avoid it , however , he faced O'Rourke in New Orleans where it became apparent that the Irishman had no idea of fighting ; Burke was able to hit him at will . |
| 7 | And he 's been able to invest it |
| 8 | But if the valuer is negligent and you buy the property relying on his report , you may still be able to sue him for damages . |
| 9 | If he himself has not paid for them then the person who sold him the goods will be able to sue him for the price but will have lost any chance of recovering the goods . |
| 10 | This means that firstly , all roles must be filled , secondly that they be filled by those best able to perform them , thirdly that the necessary training for them be undertaken and fourthly that the roles be performed conscientiously . |
| 11 | It would mean returning to Wellington with a broken heart , and despite their short acquaintance she already knew it would be a long time before she would be able to evict him from her thoughts . |
| 12 | But you belong at the Foundling Hospital and we were only able to borrow you for a little while . |
| 13 | I could have run away , but I had no money and , even if I had been able to borrow it , I should still have been too frightened because I had nowhere to run to . |
| 14 | You 'll be able to borrow it from the office downstairs and view it in the library . |
| 15 | Adam might have escaped the file memories for years , suppressed them and jerked violently away from them , but he had never been able to pretend he was unscathed by those events . |
| 16 | A woman whose home was wrecked by vandals in an attack which caused thousands of pounds of damage says she 's able to forgive them . |
| 17 | So with Amyas 's long , damp fingers pressed against her eyes , Jennifer was led stumbling into the passage , and on the way up to the house Sir Gregory tried to think how he was going to pacify his wife , who had never been able to forgive him for his infidelity and who had always resented the presence of his bastard 's daughter under her roof when she came to hear Mass . |
| 18 | She did n't think she would ever be able to forgive him for keeping that information from her . |
| 19 | I was more able to forgive her for past hurts because , as Nancy Friday says , I needed to do so . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you think you 'll ever be able to forgive me ? ’ |
| 21 | Roger Martyn , churchwarden of Long Melford in Suffolk , for example , kept the reredos , organ , clocks , and bells of Holy Trinity Church in his own home , in the hope that his heirs would be able to restore them to the church sometime in the future . |
| 22 | ‘ It looked pretty derelict when I bought it but the quality of materials and craftsmanship in those days was superb and I was able to restore it back to its original condition , apart from a few new components . ’ |
| 23 | Marshalls were happily able to restore it to its owner after the race in perfect health . |
| 24 | Everything that had been lost he was able to restore it to Ruth . |
| 25 | Wordsworth tells us that our memories are selective : certain ‘ spots of time ’ are able to restore us when we are ‘ depress 'd ’ — compare the recollections of the Wye Valley in Tintern Abbey . |
| 26 | One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music . |
| 27 | ‘ If you turned it over , ’ said Pat , ‘ you might be able to slide it . ’ |
| 28 | If the tile has simply slipped out of place but is undamaged ( that is , it still has its hanging ‘ nibs ’ on the back ) , you should be able to slide it back into place after easing up the surrounding tiles under wood wedges . |
| 29 | If you can hear me you must be within five or six miles of them but if they get to the Motorway first they 'll be able to lose you . |
| 30 | There is a difference , I think , between making children feel responsible for righting the wrongs of the world that we as adults have created , but at the same time to be able to enable them to think constructively as to what they can do . |