Example sentences of "[adv] enough to make [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a bad wound , but entirely enough to make me land badly and wrench my ankle . |
| 2 | Can they interrupt David Mellor 's musings on the later Toscanini long enough to make him listen ? |
| 3 | The illusion had lasted long enough to make her accept his invitation to spend a few days away as a reward for all her hard work at the shop . |
| 4 | He paused just long enough to make me feel uncomfortable , then said : ‘ Very well . ’ |
| 5 | When I examined the differences between success and failure in change projects or development efforts , I found that one major difference was simply time — staying with it long enough to make it work . |
| 6 | In fact mounting excitement sweeps him along impetuously enough to make you even wish for a little more restraint . |
| 7 | MUFC may find that scoring against teams Id not enough to make them roll over and give up anymore . |
| 8 | ‘ No more than two cups , certainly not enough to make him drunk . |
| 9 | Not enough to make him suddenly aware of the difference in their ages . |
| 10 | It is not enough to make me forget that the owl remains elsewhere . |
| 11 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 12 | You can t disfigure a face — not enough to make it unrecognisable , anyway — without blood . |
| 13 | There would be men enough left with them to ensure their safe withdrawal , not enough to make it worth his while disabling them . |
| 14 | You are Ferdinando 's wife , he is the father of your sons , is that not enough to make you trust in him ? , |
| 15 | Myth no. 3 : playing 18 holes of go If or a couple of sets of tennis at the weekend is enough to keep you fit Exercising once a week is not enough to make you fit . |
| 16 | Ouch , that really hurt — but not enough to make us regret a word . |
| 17 | But this difficulty is not enough to make us abandon the theory . |
| 18 | She said carrying the water up from the well had taken a great deal of time which , when I saw her filling the bucket , I was not surprised since she lowered the rope slow enough to make me fall asleep watching . |
| 19 | I put on a bit of make-up — not like before , not like a freak , just enough to make me feel respectable . |
| 20 | Malpass had told me a few more bits of the story ; not enough to know what was really going on but just enough to make me feel uncomfortable . |
| 21 | That is why we do a little aerobic exercise every day — just enough to make us puff and exercise our heart without over-doing it . |
| 22 | ‘ Just mentioning her name was always enough to make you bristle . |
| 23 | But there 's still enough to make it worth their while doing it . |
| 24 | Immediately you should find this loud noise has interrupted your train of thought , often enough to make you forget what it was that you were thinking about . |
| 25 | I smiled and her eyes smiled back enough to make me think the ice could just possibly melt there under the right circumstances . |
| 26 | Onions ai n't enough to make me cry |
| 27 | Being brought up in a christian home is n't enough to make you a christian . |
| 28 | He smiled too , and stabbed me in the gut with the gun-barrel hard enough to make me suck in my breath . |
| 29 | Alex Brown & Sons financial analyst Mark Stahlman , who coined the phrase network computing , has charged IBM with leaning on The Harvard Business Review hard enough to make it pull a 10,000-word article he wrote for the January issue on ‘ Why IBM Failed . ’ |
| 30 | The clothes had been left on the heated towel rack in the bathroom , which had taken some of the chill off them , but insinuating himself into their dampness was almost enough to make him retract his jibe , and wear the absent lover 's clothes . |