Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] always been able " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've always been able to do it , probably because I used to play soccer . |
| 2 | Except for the two years after Martin drowned I 've always been able to believe that at the heart of the universe there is love . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've always been able to breathe . ’ |
| 4 | In my whole life of collecting and I suppose it 's a little bit to assuage my conscience I 've always been able to say to myself that I 'm allowed to have these things and enjoy them , but eventually they 're all going to museums . |
| 5 | I have always been able to knock off twenty years . |
| 6 | It can help you concentrate on the inner content of the music ; and I have always been able to establish a real sense of what the musicians are doing . |
| 7 | I suspect that is merely because I have always been able to anticipate when a fox is likely to be present as the result of scent , footprints and tell-tale evidence around the burrow mouth . |
| 8 | … I have always been able to accept non-cooperation only as an effective instrument of nationalist propaganda . |
| 9 | SHe 'd always been able to disassociate ‘ work ’ from pleasure , clients from lovers , but had been worried that the experience of Jahsaxa 's friends mauling hir might have intruded into this objectivity . |
| 10 | But you 've always been able to make me behave completely out of character . ’ |
| 11 | But then she had always been able to do that for him . |
| 12 | I write as someone who 's always been able to take or leave Harrison Birtwistle 's music : the oeuvre as a whole arouses my respect , and impresses by its fiercely-defined character and self-consistency , but only a limited number of pieces ( among them The Triumph of Time , The fields of Sorrow , Melancolia I , Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum ) have spoken to me strongly and cried out for repeated listening . |
| 13 | In the past where fee disputes have arisen following an M&A engagement we have always been able to establish our position to the lawyers ' satisfaction as a result of a clear and comprehensive engagement letter agreed to in writing by the client . |
| 14 | ‘ We have the best trained , the best qualified law enforcement officers that can be found in any major city in the world so we have always been able to maintain solid protection for our community without having the comparable size departments that other cities have , ’ he says . |
| 15 | The barn was big and roomy , and they had always been able to play the noisiest games in it without fear of disturbing or upsetting anyone , for there was nobody living within half a mile of it . |
| 16 | While the newcomers consider the absence of street-lighting to be dangerous , particularly in the winter , the locals , who claim they have always been able to manage without it , regard it as an ugly and unnecessary intrusion . |
| 17 | Hoffman 's face has never been very expressive ( sometimes his rabbit stare makes me think that the great Maureen Stapleton has spawned an emotionally retarded.son ) , but he has always been able to get our empathy . ’ |
| 18 | It has always been able to impose penalties on parties who break the rules without permission , by the award of costs against them , but it has not been able to enforce the rules of its own volition . |
| 19 | They really had no choice in the matter for he had always been able to threaten any dissenters , or strays , with the loss of their union cards . |
| 20 | He had always been able to anticipate the actions of others , especially his rivals . |
| 21 | He had always been able to defuse a potentially explosive situation . |
| 22 | Well he 's always been able to drink like that he 's . |
| 23 | Scientists themselves have always been able to work in laboratories during the week , and to pray in places of worship at the week-end , by accepting the separation of the domains . |