Example sentences of "able [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have the flexibility of being able to shop around for the best possible deals and get the best professional advice ; |
| 2 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 3 | When he was able to sit down for a brief breather , he received a telephone call from control saying that some twenty young bullocks had got loose on the railway line heading in his direction and would he keep a look out , with the thought that trains and cattle do not mix . |
| 4 | Winsor & and ; Newton will be creating six ‘ mini studios ’ , each one dedicated to a different medium , where you will be able to sit down for 20 minutes and try out the materials whilst getting expert tuition in a small group . |
| 5 | Well , the thing I mainly notice when last week when Paul was home , not last week , the week before last I had Paul solidly at home , he moved himself entirely in lock , stock and barrel at the weekend , he was then with me waiting for his job and he went out every day and did little bit 's of shopping for me , got him from under my feet , saved me money , cos I was only buying what I absolutely needed , and the amount of time that I had , I mean I was able to go out for the whole day with Peggy on Wednesday , I was able to get food prepared and , admittedly I did n't manage to get as much done as I thought I was going to do , but then I think that 's with most people in life , |
| 6 | ‘ Please tell her I 'm sorry she 's ill — but that I 'm pleased to be able to stand in for her . ’ |
| 7 | We are able to stand down for a while in the evening to get some sleep , write letters , play darts or watch TV . |
| 8 | ‘ Soon be able to come up for air . ’ |
| 9 | Will you be able to come out for a drink on New Year 's Eve , next Tuesday evening ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I still have n't been able to find out for sure . |
| 11 | Being able to find out for oneself has a number of contributory sub-skills attached to it , and in planning resource-based programmes for our classes we must take into account such sub-skills so that we can give the chance for them to develop and mature . |
| 12 | well perhaps you know we 'll be able to find out for oursel , if a hundred Scottish women with two thousand seem like a lot of money . |
| 13 | I will feel more and more independent … more able to stick up for myself … to stand upon my own feet … to hold my own … no matter how difficult or trying things may be . |
| 14 | In this production , Helen McCrory 's Rose is no vulnerable young ingenue but already quite an assured operator able to stick up for herself under adverse circumstances — as they duly become on her moving on approval to Cavendish Square . |
| 15 | just for mornings only he 'll be able to stick up for himself and that wo n't he ? |
| 16 | thing is I do n't think I can but er I mean I might be able to pop in for about half an hour . |
| 17 | Had they been able to put down for a minute our in-depth features on Geraldo , Victor Sylvester and some accordions , they might have seen something half-decent on the box . |
| 18 | This power derives , not from any superior individual or institutional competence , but from the strategically important role which these interests have been able to mark out for themselves in American society . |
| 19 | No but I 'm saying I 'm not gon na be able to run around for eighty minutes being . |
| 20 | Provided we take enough water with us there 's no reason why we should n't be able to hold out for a considerable time in the banqueting hall , which is in a far better situation for defence … and let me remind you that with every passing day , relief comes nearer … perhaps as much as twenty miles nearer with every day 's march … |
| 21 | Terry was still making League appearances for us in 1968–69 when Palace again gained promotion , this time to the elite of the 1st Division but , to his disappointment and the chagrin of all Palace followers , he was never able to turn out for us in Division One . |
| 22 | You going to be able to turn out for the polo team ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ My best friend Gillian had given birth to her baby Laura in another hospital nine months before , and had been able to stay in for ten days . |
| 24 | " The amount the young can do nowadays — now when I was carrying Dan I was not able to get up for days together , me ankles swoll so , and I 'ad dizzy spells , something terrible , but she still gets around on that bike , perky as Punch . |
| 25 | Not that he could ever have afforded to buy those kind of designer clothes on his meagre wage but with the money he had received to throw the American and his beautiful assistant , or rather partner , off the scent he had been able to splash out for once in his life . |
| 26 | Now I 'll be able to splash out for Christmas , ’ she said . |
| 27 | She 's dead , only she 'll be able to move around for a bit longer . |
| 28 | The final quarter was virtually all Zimbabwe , although lock Phil Davies was able to charge through for Wales ' fourth try seven minutes from time , which Jenkins again converted . |
| 29 | That was bad for newspapers and bad for the Council : but , worst of all , it meant that there was no independent body able to speak up for press freedoms under threat . |
| 30 | That was bad for newspapers and bad for the Council : but , worst of all , it meant that there was no independent body able to speak up for press freedoms under threat . |