Example sentences of "[adv] [be] able talk [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had still not been able to talk to Majorie about the adoption . |
| 2 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 3 | because we 've not been able to talk to people |
| 4 | It was a nagging frustration for Mary to go up to the Ryans and not be able to talk about what was going on at Riverstown . |
| 5 | At first Mercury 's customers will have to rely on fixed , leased lines , and will not be able to talk to other subscribers . |
| 6 | in theory they should not be able to talk to each-other because they 're either answering the phone and talking to somebody else bloody getting on looking at the screen and typing |
| 7 | This is a pretty odd combination if you think about it for dormice and hares do not really talk and so would not be able to talk to the mad hatter , a human . |
| 8 | That evening she still was n't feeling too great , but nevertheless was able to talk about the television she 'd missed , the programmes she 'd missed on telly . |
| 9 | Neither father and mother , nor sister , had ever been able to talk about it , either between themselves or with outsiders . |
| 10 | They both loved deeply , but all they would ever be able to talk about were small , unimportant things . |
| 11 | Spectators will also be able to talk to the scientists working beneath the waves . |
| 12 | ‘ I wo n't get a fellow , I 'm from nowhere , a decent fellow would n't be able to talk about me and where I came from . |
| 13 | ‘ If I start gassing about it to the local vet , ’ she said , ‘ it 'll get all stale and distorted , and I shall be so bored with it I sha n't be able to talk about it at all . ’ |
| 14 | After he calmed down , Scott reasoned that if Annabel were having a heart attack , she would n't be able to talk on the telephone . |
| 15 | She became there as the week went on and as we seriously , intently were able to talk to her and even comb her hair . |
| 16 | Stephen had never been able to talk to her about her relationship with the great novelist . |
| 17 | I 've often felt desperate too , but I 've never been able to talk about it because people think you 're being superior : holier than human . |
| 18 | She had never been able to talk about her fears with any of her friends . |
| 19 | I was talking to a civil servant in the Ministry of erm Energy the other day , and he said that he reckoned out of several hundred people working there there were about fifteen people who had a scientific or engineering background , and therefore were able to talk with some degree of expertise perhaps and certainly knowledge about the matters that they were discussing . |