Example sentences of "[vb past] have enough [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was interesting to listen to the comments after the game from the Radio 5 reporter who said that we 'd had enough chances to last us ‘ till Christmas , maybe it 'll make a few people sit up and recognise that we have a team capable of winning something this season . |
| 2 | Theodora felt she 'd had enough surprises . |
| 3 | It would have taken him all day even if they 'd had enough tarmac in the back of the pickup ! |
| 4 | They were telling him he 'd had enough drink and stop |
| 5 | So he made a cup of coffee ( realising , sensibly for once , that he 'd had enough alcohol ) , and sat down in the low upholstered chair with wooden arms that was one of the room 's few comforts . |
| 6 | But we had to go and take it into his culler I had one day at that , I thought I thought I 'd had enough coal . |
| 7 | Jay 'd had enough men to know they treat a woman 's body with anything from contempt and rage to inept uncertainty and fear ; once in a blue moon only , with real fascination and tenderness . |
| 8 | If it was her destiny to suffer in life , well , she 'd had enough practice , had n't she ? |
| 9 | I had no intention of taking the Transit up West — I 'd had enough trouble round the launderette , which doubles as a common room for the junior branch of the Hackney National Front — so I left it parked outside the front door in exactly the spot where Frank and Salome usually plug in the nightlight for their VW Golf . |
| 10 | Erm , I do n't know how they live , yet they always seemed to have enough money you know . |
| 11 | Macallister had one clear run at goal in the first half , and looked to have enough speed to round the keeper and score , but instead he pulled up clutching his back . |
| 12 | He knew well enough that he could not , but had had enough experience to know that aggressive tactics often paid . |
| 13 | He had had enough experience of strangers probing his own hurts without wanting to pry into those of others . |
| 14 | 3 S + V ( conditional perfect ) + if + S + V ( past perfect tense ) : I would have bought a new car if I had had enough money . |
| 15 | Corbett turned to his guide to ask what was happening but found the man had had enough sense and discretion to depart as quickly as possible . |
| 16 | She was a beauty and he 'd often wanted to steal a kiss , but had had enough sense not to try . |
| 17 | While another woman would have had hysterics all over him because of the rain and his wound , Isabel had had enough presence of mind to realise they could not be followed in such inclement weather . |
| 18 | She had had enough shocks for one day , and her nerves threatened to become more raw every time she looked into those familiar dark brown eyes . |
| 19 | God knew she had had enough practice in ten years of policing . |
| 20 | Shortly afterwards Nigger decided he had had enough heat for one day . |
| 21 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |