Example sentences of "'ve [adv] [be] able [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've only been able to get through the last four years by not thinking about it . |
| 2 | People in my trade are supposed to be able to help , but I 've only been able to come up with the old platitude : ‘ Do n't buy a £500 car from a dealer because you 'll only get £100 worth of vehicle — the rest will be profit . ’ |
| 3 | And they have a bill , an bill of two hundred and fifty four pounds for the lighting , erm they think it 's an important community opportunity to have good entertainment on their doorstep , and they 've only been able to balance their proposed production this year , by putting up the price by fifty pence . |
| 4 | Erm a fully mobile workable skeleton , and th it 's a deprived area of Nottingham and they 've apparently been able to teach them more with this skeleton over this past six months than than any other kids in the school . |
| 5 | I 've not been able to ask Fiona why , since I know she is personally very involved and helped draw up the UK version of ‘ Caring For The Earth ’ with Adrian Phillips . |
| 6 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 7 | because we 've not been able to talk to people |
| 8 | We are having , we , we are at the moment reviewing all our traffic calming er requests because there are a whole load of them and in fact some of them we 've not been able to proceed as quickly as others so we , we need to look at the whole thing |
| 9 | Erm if they , if you 've got a heavy mortgage , and I 'm not suggesting that many of you will have a heavy mortgage , it 's not a bad thing when you 're retiring to fix a rate , because we 've not been able to do that for a long time . |
| 10 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |
| 11 | He said I 've not been able to get one , and I went to he said I thought with an old |
| 12 | Use analysis of the situation you are in as your key tactic : ‘ I 've not been able to make my point . |
| 13 | ‘ These fifteenth-century chests with their incised shell pattern are peculiar to Møn — I 've not been able to discover any on the other islands . |
| 14 | This is purported to walk the grave yard at certain times of the year , but firm evidence of this I 've not been able to find ; you always hear that someone else has seen it but never first hand . |
| 15 | The general member auditors , er , I 'm told that they , they look after the money they 've not been able to find themselves seats I understand this morning , so hopefully everything 's in order but somewhere around Eric George and Arthur are they around ? |
| 16 | Erm , apparently the first tune they used to those words , was a tune , which I 've not been able to find , which came from Britain . |
| 17 | And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since . |
| 18 | Erm whilst I 've not been able to produce an audited er set of accounts I do have er a set of figures for you erm and as you said at the the beginning of your opening er speech Mr Chairman that erm we had one or two losses during the year , those er in actual fact did n't erm affect us in thi this particular financial year as they were aimed at the September December period , but therefore they will be reflected in next year 's figures not or in the current year 's figures or the next annual general meeting 's figures . |
| 19 | Yeah unfortunately I 've not been able to have it done yet . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've hardly been able to sleep because of all this worry . |
| 21 | ‘ Since then I 've hardly been able to see his hands uncovered , which makes me very sad . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've always been able to breathe . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've always been able to do it , probably because I used to play soccer . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But you 've always been able to make me behave completely out of character . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Kathleen , absolute brick to the end , has let me keep my season ticket for London so I 've still been able to pop down there during the day when I feel like it — and the rail staff at Colchester have been quite happy to let me have a break in my journey . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's the first time I 've ever been able to persuade Beefy to stop for treatment , ’ says Dave ‘ Rooster ’ Roberts , the new England cricket team physio who is looking after the walkers . |
| 29 | This is the only nine to five sales job I 've ever been able to offer anybody . |
| 30 | We 've also been able to have a great deal more equality . |