Example sentences of "able [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I c I was fortunate to be able to carry on at the same place . |
| 2 | Then he would have been able to sit down at the table , loosen his shirt collar , his shoelaces , and read the evening paper until Patsy was ready . |
| 3 | For the first few weeks I enjoyed being able to go out at the weekends , to buy trendy clothes and other things that I did not really need or appreciate . |
| 4 | Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders . |
| 5 | Are you able to come out at the weekend with us ? ’ |
| 6 | And so we 're able to , to , once we 've found which birds er have arrived , picked a nest and er have laid eggs , we put a careful watch on them and then we 're able to tot up at the end of the breeding season , how many young have actually fledged . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We thought it was as good an excuse as any and we were all able to get away at the same time . |
| 9 | As I say you 'll probably be able to pay in at the Nat West cos you have got an account with them . |
| 10 | In this it surpassed all that Lanfranc had been able to achieve even at the height of his influence in 1072 . |
| 11 | As far as Wales are concerned , the feeling afterwards was a sense of relief for being able to throw back at the French everything their opponents threw at them and a mood of confidence that their hard work is slowly paying dividends . |
| 12 | Provided he could use the motion , he might be able to rock away at the melancholy and eventually shift it off its fierce sticking point . |