Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv] enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until they had rounded a bend in the road , and the echoes of Master Thomas 's good wishes had long since died away , that Isabel managed to pull herself together enough to recall her resolution to put fitzAlan at a safe distance — and keep him there . |
| 2 | She was now only a step away from her target , so she was n't far from getting to know him well enough to question him about his allegiance — just as long as she could keep his escort sweet , which would probably mean more bondage if that was the only way he could get his nuts off . |
| 3 | He should be encouraged and allowed to write it slowly enough to write it correctly . |
| 4 | While I was testing the Seayak on the west coast of Ireland I failed to pull it far enough up the beach on the night of a rising spring tide . |
| 5 | I did n't try to hide it oddly enough ! |
| 6 | Well , you ought to know it well enough to write five or six lines about it , which is all you need for a book . |
| 7 | You had to drive leftish to position yourself far enough down the fairway to get a pitch into the green . |
| 8 | This was carefully shielded from the growing boy , though horror of a personal , more penetrating sort was to obtrude itself soon enough on him . |
| 9 | His laugh was sharply curtailed when Ace lunged forward , snatched his rifle from hands that were too surprised to grip it tightly enough , and smashed him in the groin with the butt . |
| 10 | But you had to play them well enough for people to dance to , because that 's what you were there for . ’ |
| 11 | I find the easiest way is not to attempt to free the yarn from the sinker plate completely , but to free it just enough to enable you to push the carriage on past the weaving yarn . |
| 12 | If the CBSO strings failed to assert themselves strongly enough in the overall balance at certain crucial points in the first movement , they certainly approached the textural problems of the adagio with great sensitivity and , when it came to them , phrased the main theme as eloquently as the clarinet had done on its first appearance . |
| 13 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 14 | Sue Adams of Greenpeace said : ‘ The NRA does have adequate powers to prosecute , but it does n't seem to use them often enough . ’ |
| 15 | If we want to do something badly enough and set about it seriously it is staggering how much help just seems to fall our way . |
| 16 | He managed to detain her long enough for them to tether the horses , because there would be no sense in coming out of the Workshops ( with , or without the prisoner ) and finding that the horses had turned their heads for Tara and that they had to walk the rest of the way to the Fire Court . |
| 17 | If you 've got a strong enough personality and you want to do it badly enough , you 'll get there . |
| 18 | I have moved pianos upstairs , in certain cases where it 's a very open staircase and a straight one , but we wo n't normally do that cos er we need the equipment to do it , the proper sled and everything and we have n't got those things because we would n't be asked upon to do it often enough . |
| 19 | His only complaint is that the technique is so simple that other researchers will be able to duplicate it quickly enough to keep up with his group . |
| 20 | The other is that for some reason you 've been too scared to let anyone close enough . ’ |
| 21 | Inflatables do not need great pressure to keep them hard enough for the sea . |
| 22 | ‘ You seemed to understand it clearly enough last night , so why not now ? |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll get to see him soon enough . ’ |
| 24 | It 's sometimes possible to approach them closely enough to stick a device like an anemometer , or wind speed gauge , into the gas jet , and by doing this , supersonic speeds have been recorded . |
| 25 | As a freelance journalist he could report them because just enough editors were just sufficiently interested to pay him just enough for doing so . |
| 26 | A small tower was built from concrete blocks for the shop-bought filter to raise it high enough for the water from this to gravity feed to the new filter . |
| 27 | But because both CSPs and more general phonological variables are variety-specific , it is difficult to distinguish them clearly enough to apply the taxonomy more generally . |
| 28 | If you want to achieve it badly enough you ca n't fail to succeed ! |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the company is bragging that it 's having trouble dumbing down the Alpha chip to make it slow enough to sell against the 80486 . |