Example sentences of "i be able [to-vb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That helps me a lot and I find I 'm able to assert myself a bit more . |
| 2 | I know what I 'm doing , I know it 's self-destructive and dangerous , but because I 'm not quite as terrifyingly thin as she was , I 'm able to convince myself that I 'm in control , and continue with my exercising mania . |
| 3 | Up to 1974 , I was able to feed myself and get in and out of bed . |
| 4 | And oh , we loved the intimacy of having them so close , close enough that when I rode my bicycle for ‘ Committee ’ through the ‘ vomitarium ’ separating one wedge of audience from the next I was able to steady myself by grasping the leg of a gentleman who had stretched it over the side . |
| 5 | I was able to throw myself into my work , which helped to take my mind off the fact that she was gone . |
| 6 | Then , after a further interval , I was able to drag myself into my little cave . |
| 7 | Here again I was able to prove myself useful and to gain a little kudos : I could compose with what seemed to others an astonishing facility an ode or sonnet on behalf of some lovesick junior and addressed to some beefy , lacrosse-playing heroine in whom I myself had no emotional interest whatsoever . |
| 8 | It was disloyal that I was able to divert myself , but appalling that I did so with Otto . |