Sentence examples for was capable on from inspiring English sources

Bruce, like Helen, was capable, on occasion, of "incandescent" tenderness, and "Fun Home" opens with an image of Alison and her father playing "airplane" on the floor.

Such was the threat and energy of which Mayall was capable on TV that viewers were often glad there was a sheet of glass between them and him.

"I was put on the air almost right away," she said, in a 2005 interview for the Archive of American Television, a video library compiled by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation. "I was capable on my feet, my voice was audible — and I had good legs".

Still, it was capable, on its own, of launching raids, deploying patrols and doing what the Americans call "controlling its battle space", something that only a few Iraqi units could do a year ago.Yet the size of Iraq's army has stayed constant at around 115,000 troops for the past six months, and though it may get better it is unlikely to get much bigger.

Everybody was capable of putting on a patch, expected to have to, and did have to.

Despite his imperfect, book-learned Russian, Wilson betrayed no doubt that he was capable of taking on Nabokov.

He was capable of dancing on pianos.

The problem with Rodriguez has rarely been what he was capable of doing on the field.

During his years of supervision, he did his best to prove that he was capable of living on his own.

Villas-Boas said after the match he thought Lloris was capable of playing on.

AdAge reports that Oprah said that her reputation raised expectations "beyond anything I was capable of doing on my own".