Example sentences of "able [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I c I was fortunate to be able to carry on at the same place . |
| 2 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 3 | Ian , 49 , told friends : ‘ It may sound sloppy but the two of us will be able to sit down at home and have a jolly good cuddle listening to this . ’ |
| 4 | What we 're also talking about , is elderly people being able to go out at night and not be too frightened to go out at night . |
| 5 | For the first few weeks I enjoyed being able to go out at the weekends , to buy trendy clothes and other things that I did not really need or appreciate . |
| 6 | I was able to travel quite freely for about a week , and then after that , I was n't able to go out at all . |
| 7 | I 'm delighted that you 've been able to come along at such short notice . |
| 8 | Are you able to come out at the weekend with us ? ’ |
| 9 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 10 | There are , of course , compensating advantages for urban-fringe farmers — proximity to markets and consumers , the possibility of grafting on lucrative recreational facilities for horse-riding , fishing , shooting , and so on , and not least the prospect of being able to sell out at development value . |
| 11 | These are both the kind of information you should be able to pick up at your local field , in exactly the same form . |
| 12 | The idea behind this particular add-on is to provide the user with the feel of really being able to shoot back at screen . |
| 13 | There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment . |
| 14 | She could have hired a team of professionals to do the work , of course , but she 'd wanted to be able to look round at the end of it all and know she 'd done it . |
| 15 | By then some of the hurt had lessened and he was able to look down at her scrawly handwriting and think : so she made it . |
| 16 | Later , after a deliberately nostalgic and painful visit to St Juliot in March 1913 , he was able to look back at their early days together in ‘ At Castle Boterel ’ , ‘ Beeny Cliff ’ , ‘ The phantom horsewoman ’ , and eventually to come to terms , however imperfectly , with his memories . |
| 17 | Who knows , maybe it will appear with time , and by the end of the year we will be able to look back at Figure 2 and say that this was one of the first proofs of the existence of the W particle ? |
| 18 | By the way , your ma will be able to help out at your dairy for a month or two as I 'm cutting down on the number of cows at the manor . |
| 19 | It seems , then , that the average undertaker was little more than a speculative cabinet-maker and joiner who , either by direct contact with the metalworking trades , or via such funeral houses as Richard Green 's , was able to buy in at wholesale all that was required for a funeral . |
| 20 | Victory when it came I found tasteless , I was ashamed to be envious of air crews who were able to turn up at reunions with a crew intact , and they still can even 40 years on , and relive those cruel yet wondrous days when the composition of a crew was as binding as the sanctity of marriage . |
| 21 | As I say you 'll probably be able to pay in at the Nat West cos you have got an account with them . |
| 22 | The Newcastle-based steel fabricator and erector contracted to carry out the steelwork went into receivership early in the operation but fortunately Bone , Connel & Baxters of Motherwell was able to take over at short notice and , says Alan Muir , ‘ did a great job ’ . |
| 23 | Always before she had worked free , able to move about at will . |
| 24 | Most modern faxes are Group III compliant ( see the Jargon Busters on page 56 ) and are able to print out at 200dpi , which is n't too far off laser printer quality . |
| 25 | I wanted to have that control in the studio , being able to step in at any moment . ’ |
| 26 | As far as Wales are concerned , the feeling afterwards was a sense of relief for being able to throw back at the French everything their opponents threw at them and a mood of confidence that their hard work is slowly paying dividends . |