Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [modal v] be able " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is probably the only letter of this kind I shall be able to write to you , as we shall not be able to use the Embassy as our post-box after leaving Peking . |
| 2 | With luck I may be able to sleep tonight , without dreaming , without lying awake in sweating fear , listening to the sounds creeping up the house . |
| 3 | I 'm just on my way back to the hotel and with luck I 'll be able to get a flight tonight . |
| 4 | With a bit of luck I 'll be able to get some good shots from the top deck before we sail . ’ |
| 5 | all sorts of things which are available which if I just brushed up on so at least if I went to an interview I 'd be able to talk about |
| 6 | Cos if I go to the college I might be able to get a flat . |
| 7 | So I thought that if I climbed the fence I 'd be able to reach the entrance and the machine where I can buy some chocolate . |
| 8 | At er well this week you sort of look back and say yeah but erm in about ten years time if you come and ask me the same question I would be able be in a better position to give you an answer . |
| 9 | I 'm going to introduce this abbreviated momentictiture here in the hope that during the course of the lecture I 'll be able to add comments about which of these factors lead to which of these results . |
| 10 | I often think about seeing a therapist , in the hope that one day I 'll be able to have a fulfilling love life . |
| 11 | I 'd always imagined that one day I 'd be able to turn to the guy beside me at the Giants Stadium and say ‘ That 's my kid playing down there ’ . |
| 12 | I learned that my parents had got to London and prayed for the day I 'd be able to see them . |
| 13 | ‘ If I can get drunk enough on this stuff I might be able to get away with it at the next repatriation board . ’ |
| 14 | Prince , now that easy to find , I , hang on a minute I 'll be able to find that |
| 15 | At the moment the only thing making me write this essay is the thought of me being able to vegetate in front of the box tomorrow night and also , if I push my self and write three lines a minute I will be able to go to bed early and ease the strain and trauma of getting up in the morning and trudging off to another dreary day in school . |
| 16 | They often have people in doing talks , so later on this or early next month I 'll be able to get a couple of hours talks . |
| 17 | Unperturbed , he said , ‘ When you 're in the throes of passion I might be able to make you admit to it yet . |
| 18 | By the time I 've finished with this room and had the forensic lab 's report I 'll be able to tell you a lot more than his mother ever knew about him . |
| 19 | That way I might be able to ensure you 'll have a job at the end of it all . ’ |
| 20 | At least that way I shall be able to stop you purloining Nero again . |
| 21 | Now that I 've finished my English and do n't have a tutor I 'll be able to get more . |
| 22 | If you could put it in plain English I might be able to understand . |
| 23 | I 've only done seven Well there 's twenty tapes and I 've got ta do as many as I can , I have n't done half of them yet , but if I could have them over the weekend I 'd be able to do loads more cos I 'm working on Saturday , I 'm going out Saturday , I think |
| 24 | ‘ And this time I 'll be able to look at the video with pride . ’ |
| 25 | I hoped that by knocking-off time I 'd be able to say that I knew someone who had finished it . |
| 26 | When you are on the stage I shall be able to see no-one else . |