Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [adj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victor had bragged , absurdly , that he 'd had a five a.m. rendezvous with her at a private house in Cadogan Square , just before her flight to Poland , and that ‘ the earth had moved ’ . |
| 2 | When Suzy failed to keep a six o'clock appointment her worried boss rang police , who later found her purse and straw hat . |
| 3 | He had done a good enough job of getting her to do that already , and she 'd be damned if she was going to give him the satisfaction of letting it happen again . |
| 4 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 5 | As it was , she had made a big enough fool of herself already . |
| 6 | The Ayrshire Yeomanry had experienced an active enough war after all . |
| 7 | Male cab drivers in Gloucester said running a female only business would give an unfair impression of men . |
| 8 | Humanity , before it had acquired a strong enough intellect and developed science and technology , had achieved the instinctual renunciations which make communal life possible by using purely affective forces . |