Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] a [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got a big enough fright when I said : ‘ Excuse me , but your wee laddie is filling your bag with apples that I 'm sure you 'll not be wanting . |
| 2 | In fact she had been approached by wealthier men than Jonas , whose interests in her were sometimes honourable but mostly not , and she had a realistic enough sense of her attraction not to be ruffled by anything her cousin could say . |
| 3 | If we had a large enough sample of observations on Y t , X t and Z t we would expect a linear regression of Y t on X t and Z t to yield the result that the estimates of 1 and 22 were the same — except for sampling variation — if it really is true that . |
| 4 | He had seen the boy once or twice since , and he seemed a nice enough lad — a little backward perhaps , but his mother was ashamed of him , and refused to send him to school , perhaps fearing the other children would tease him . |
| 5 | Put like that , it seemed a simple enough equation , and at least now , she thought , she could be on her guard , would not let anything get in the way of level-headed logic . |
| 6 | It seemed an ordinary enough night when Anne Simonsen set out to work at the Marina Hotel in Copenhagen where she had a job as part-time barmaid . |
| 7 | It seemed an innocent enough thing to do . |
| 8 | Folly had to admit that it seemed an efficient enough system . |
| 9 | It looked a reasonable enough distance , so I made my way towards it . |
| 10 | It sounded a trivial enough disturbance on the surface , but it seemed as though there might be substance in Tom Watt 's fears after all . |
| 11 | He longed to discuss Meredith further , his background , his opinions — on the surface he sounded a sensible enough sort of fellow but he did n't know how to go about it . |