Example sentences of "able look [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in less difficulty than on the first two days : I no longer pushed the ends of the shafts but gained better control from between them and was able to look around without overbalancing . |
| 2 | It gave me a sense of liberation , being able to look around without overbalancing . |
| 3 | Angelica left the train on a stretcher in the dusk under bright station lights , her tomato head half covered by a blanket , and one lifeless hand , with red fingernails and sparkling rings , artistically drooping out of concealment on the side where the train 's passengers were able to look on with fascination . |
| 4 | It 's so important for a wife to be able to look up to her husband . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 7 | Students have to show that they understand what has been learned so deeply that they are able to look down on it and assess it critically for themselves . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | By first establishing a formal highpoint , the critics are then able to look down upon the content , ‘ objectively ’ pointing out the division which they claim exists ( which in fact they have helped to construct ) between the two . |
| 10 | There was never any doubt in his mind that they would or could do so , and indeed he heard their shouts and as the next wave lifted him was able to look down upon them and see that they were luffing to the wind and preparing to beat back towards him . |
| 11 | In 1888 , a decade after total estrangement had come between them , Nietzsche was still able to look back to his days with Wagner at Tribschen as " days of trust , optimism , sublime accidents , profound moments " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Jane McLoughlin also met an ex-hacker who , since his self-cure , had been able to look back with some pleasure at his early hacking day 's : ‘ I 'd kick that machine of mine into life , sing a snatch of Yes . |
| 15 | Occurring spontaneously with this was the creation of what man , millions of years later is able to look back on and recognise as myriads of units of ‘ goodness ’ being produced from those ‘ good ’ events which were controlling evolution , and which he can now understand as being the origins of his well-being . |
| 16 | Roberts , the Second Master , was able to look back on his 35 years at School . |
| 17 | All in all , we will be able to look back on 1990 as a year of solid achievement and forward to 1991 with confidence . |
| 18 | Spinner Peter Such , close to tears on Monday night after England 's 179-run defeat , will be able to look back on his own performance with pride when the disappointment of collective failure fades a little . |
| 19 | The manner of Charlie 's death in this particular incarnation , coupled with the way in which he is able to look back over his earlier experiences no doubt contributed a lot to the fate of Eliot 's Phlebas , |
| 20 | Writing this in 1776 , he was pleased enough with what was happening ; had he been able to look back from 1815 he would have seen his optimism largely vindicated . |
| 21 | Then he sat for a while on the aisle stand which was a box covering the auto-pilot , where he was able to look out through the nose . |
| 22 | I want to be able to look out of the window and see other people . |