Example sentences of "[adv] been able [verb] anything [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labelling theory implies that criminals are powerless , passive victims who have had the misfortune to be labelled criminal , and have not been able to do anything about it . |
| 2 | If Cuba fell , other Latin American countries would reject us , claiming that for all our might , the Soviet Union had n't been able to do anything for Cuba except to make empty protests to the United Nations ’ ( Khrushchev : 1970 , p. 493 ) . |
| 3 | So the bedrooms and they 're not too bad because he has n't been able to do anything in the bedrooms the bedrooms are alright except that over the lintels in most of the bedrooms the plaster is is not right , it 's it 's flaking in great lumps and rippling and cracked something to do with the |
| 4 | She had n't been able to read anything from the ice-chips that stared back at her . |
| 5 | He has never been able to do anything about the chairs . |
| 6 | We 've never been able to discover anything about his parents . ’ |