Example sentences of "[vb mod] to [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you remember those peppermint creams we used to be able to get ? |
| 2 | One used to be able to listen to light classical music on Radio 2 on a Sunday morning , but that has disappeared , and Radio 4 's topsy-turvy ‘ streamlining ’ has wrecked the listening habits of years . |
| 3 | You even used to be able to bring them here with you . |
| 4 | And we used to be able to get all the gear in John Illsley 's car … ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Yeah , I used to be able to play with the slide at the 12th fret and reach all the way back to hit the top string at the seventh fret with my first finger . |
| 6 | BIRDS do it , bees do it , but you used to be able to watch Emmerdale Farm with your granny and be confident that the cast would n't do it . |
| 7 | It 's very difficult to get professional advice that is apposite — you used to be able to get free advice from the Ministry of Agriculture but now they charge you for the privilege of being told how not to farm . ’ |
| 8 | Life insurers used to be able to show any profit from selling a bond in the year in which they traded it . |
| 9 | Psychologism , through its influence in marriage guidance and churches , and also through its effects in the world of work — in personnel management , for example — is able to link the two spheres in a way religion used to be able to do but can not do any longer . |
| 10 | I used to be able to go to a park and swim , or check out a ball to play with , because they had a part-time supervisor there , then they take that away and the park becomes a land mass , then it becomes a turf , you see ? |
| 11 | Before the clampdown , I used to be able to score round here , there was that many places that you can score really . |
| 12 | So all , as I say erm , never used to be able to die with asthma there was but very few , but now it seems to be more common because people are not going for help when they need it . |
| 13 | And of course when you was er was n't on guard duty at the f early evening , course there used to be used to pop into the Peel and have a couple of halves or some would have a pint and there was a chap in , in the Home , Home Guard he , he used to be able to play the piano so we used to have a singsong in there for a social , you know . |
| 14 | You used to be able to go along to a pottery , say , and say , ‘ What was going on here at about eight o'clock this morning ? ’ … |
| 15 | I never used to be able to read good before I went into prison : I used to get into the book and think , ‘ What 's that word ? ’ and then cut the word down to size until I made up what it was . |
| 16 | From right from the time office er I used to go into blacksmith shop to mash tea because that 's where we used to We used to be able to go and take the cam for the timekeeper and I was in the stores too , and er mash the tea in the forge They put the kettle on the forge you see ? |
| 17 | We used to get help from the Co-ops because they used to give us lists of new members and we used to be able to canvass those . |
| 18 | And you used to be ab well you used to be able to over the flames of the fire on one side , and then er a saucepan on the other on the in one side with your vegetables in one side , with your potatoes in and then you used to have your oven with a for your meat . |
| 19 | And er then er these two erm er Then when we used to when we was the young you used to be able to go down to Skeggie for a day on train for two and six . |
| 20 | Well you used to be able to book up a over a year in advance . |
| 21 | Then you used to be able to buy clay pipes , I do n't think you could today . |
| 22 | ‘ I used to be able to do everything my friends did , ’ she says . |
| 23 | ‘ I used to be able to walk thirteen paces every way on the raft ; and now it 's only twelve . ’ |
| 24 | We never used to be able to go and play anywhere take this one with you . |
| 25 | I used to be able to do this and come out chuckling . ’ |
| 26 | Apparently his grandmothers Budgie used to be able to say ‘ Top of the morning to you ! … |
| 27 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 28 | I used to be able to , but just lately I 've found it 's impossible ; once I 'm awake I start worrying about the silliest things . ’ |
| 29 | In the old days , we used to be able to fund the house from farm income . |
| 30 | You used to be able to get odd knick nacks in there now it is just like any other store and we have enough up market stores in Thame . |