Example sentences of "able to get [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm hoping to be able to get around to every house in the village with the petition , ’ said Mrs. Gilmour . |
| 2 | When first seen at the homoeopathic clinic , he was just able to get around with one tripod . |
| 3 | Tomorrow we should be able to get over to the mainland . |
| 4 | On leaving , he said that his only regret , was that he had n't been able to get round to everyone and say goodbye . |
| 5 | You know , the number and I mean has n't been able to get round to buying space in the T T G and Travel Weekly until the first two weeks in February cos we were so late in informing him I must had this conversation has taken away the brochure so there 's not a copy here but we 'll try and get hold of some as soon as possible but I mean they 're mainly for Glasgow but had been been up there from R and D y'know and she said that the people up there did n't seem to know the slightest thing about interline how to deal with interline tickets and agency tickets and all that sort of business . |
| 6 | So it looks as if cameramen ( rather than the proposed cameramans ) will be able to get on with their work in the Gulf ; the beloved accent on abîme will not fall into the abyss ; and the whole affair will have been a non-événement . |
| 7 | All Irish landladies , however pleasant , seemed to breathe a sigh of relief when a visitor left , and they were able to get on with the intense business of family life without interruption . |
| 8 | By doing this the work of the council is expedited and the officers of the council are able to get on with the instructions of the committee without waiting for confirmation by the council of the decisions of the committee . |
| 9 | We were able to get on with our routine work without too much drama unfolding around us , and we started to dream of what we would do when the war was over . |
| 10 | Whatever their opinion of him he was clearly in touch with other artists , as in April 1808 he complains bitterly of not being able to get on with his painting because of other artists coming to see his work . |
| 11 | It can he useful to recap on the action you want taken after putting on pressure : ‘ If I call talk about it today , then I 'll be able to get on with the project — if I ca n't , the project is going to have to he delayed . |
| 12 | ( a ) ‘ If I can talk about it today , then I 'll be able to get on with the project — if I ca n't , the project is going to have to be delayed . |
| 13 | She will be able to get on with her independent life knowing at last that everyone is aware of the truth . |
| 14 | Its status is such that those who work within this dominant tradition have generally felt able to get on with their work without having to reflect on its theoretical foundations . |
| 15 | Above all , account people must be able to get on with everyone — colleagues as much as clients . |
| 16 | And you must have a way of being able to get on with people . |
| 17 | We realized that each of us would be a big story for a few days , but that would pass and then we 'd be able to get on with the real work of getting to know our families and friends again . |
| 18 | The gardener had become a hermit because he could not abide fools ; but since the bear spoke scarcely three words in the course of the day , he was able to get on with his work without disturbance . |
| 19 | you know , that could be a sort of central way of getting that back could n't it if if it can be that sort of you know comments about being more confident , being able to get on with it . |
| 20 | Soon it would be completely behind her , and she would be able to get on with living again , untroubled by the cataclysms of her emotions . |
| 21 | If there was trouble he 'd have to spend the rest of the day putting it down and would n't be able to get on with the arms search at all . |
| 22 | I have been able to get on with ‘ getting better ’ simply because my colleagues have taken responsibility for my work load ever since the Executive Committee Meeting in July , and I can not thank them enough for all that they have done . |
| 23 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 24 | And if that 's gon na happen then how are women gon na be able to get on into higher education |
| 25 | After a month , the pain began to ease slightly and Lisa was able to get up to her own room with Janet 's help . |
| 26 | yeah , but that 's gon na take ages , it 's , we 're not gon na be able to get up to Kilburn on time |
| 27 | He felt his way across the joists in front of him , got his legs free from the cupboard and was able to get up into a crouch , balancing on a joist , hands just above his head , holding on to rough , undressed wood . |
| 28 | " 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Making ten films is truly boring , ’ he says ‘ If I had worked continuously with the same cameraman , I would n't have been able to get up in the morning . |
| 30 | And all his working life his mind was set on when he retired , instead of down doing it , you know , late at night he was going to be able to get up in the morning and do it . |