Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] n't [be] able " in BNC.
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| 1 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 2 | Michelangelo , da Vinci , Bellini , Caravaggio , Bernini — half the world 's art treasures in one country , and I had n't been able to travel beyond the walls of the Victoria and Albert . |
| 3 | It was just as well because the back boiler in the kitchen split in two about fifteen years ago and I have n't been able to light a fire in the grate since . |
| 4 | Please can you tell me the name of the director , because he also directed Such Good Friends , and I have n't been able to remember his name ? " |
| 5 | I used to have three but I lost three sheep down when they built the university , and I have n't been able to find them , so I thought that they 'd be useful to try and locate them , you know . |
| 6 | You 've both been working very hard — two of the best in the Khedive 's service — and you have n't been able to find anything . |
| 7 | you 've been overtired and you have n't been able to get to sleep very well . |
| 8 | All that time , and she had n't been able to get him to look at her . |
| 9 | She had n't been home and she had n't been able to call in . |
| 10 | Anne had seen her going into my room , and she had n't been able to bear it . |
| 11 | With Julius , though , it had always been so very physical , and she had n't been able to stop herself from responding to that great flood of passion . |
| 12 | Although although there 's a lot of people who feel they 're all living in the lap of luxury if you 're Post Office or B T pensioners , they are n't and we have n't been able to get this surplus er in any way used for the benefit of those people and er and that 's where the ownership of the fund really and the surplus are tied in together . |
| 13 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 14 | And they have n't been able to totally accept what 's wrong with Mum , you know , that some of her behavioural problems are n't her being vindictive . |
| 15 | on disability issues and they have n't been able to find anybody else , but what they 've said , despite extensive attempts the convention has not been able to obtain a replacement for this one , due to and buys us time . |
| 16 | Apparently the , he said they 've had one of them up in court twenty seven times and they have n't been able to prove it yet |
| 17 | That was five years ago , and he has n't been able to face a strawberry since ! |
| 18 | ‘ I 've tried to stop it , but I have n't been able to . |
| 19 | ‘ But I have n't been able to think of an excuse for getting in touch with her , ’ she admitted . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't like making excuses , but I have n't been able to practice as much as I would want . |
| 21 | But I have n't been able |
| 22 | But she had n't been able to hear what he said for the roaring in her ears . |
| 23 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 24 | She 'd known that it was childish behaviour on her part , but she had n't been able to help herself . |
| 25 | was actually going to get the information for tonight but she has n't been able to and I have n't seen her . |
| 26 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 27 | Many feminists have become uncomfortable with this idea , but we have n't been able to find any other argument that did n't immediately pose a threat to our basic position that women must control their own bodies . |
| 28 | We intended to do a little bit of er beach work to try and get something like that but we have n't been able to , so . |
| 29 | Unfortunately very little , er we know he 's been in prison since nineteen eighty seven and that he 's been sentenced to ten years , but we have n't been able to determine er under what charge , what happened at his trial , whether he was given defence , er access to a lawyer , those kind of things , and er Amnesty believes that he 's been er imprisoned for his beliefs . |
| 30 | He had farmed the child out , of course , but he had n't been able to quell the fear that somehow she might intrude upon his future . |