Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact she was so kind to me that I became brave enough to ask a question . |
| 2 | It seemed possible then to order the past through the focus of feminism . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a waste of money , ’ said Harriet , looking out of the window at the parkland , which seemed lush enough to feed the whole of the East End of London until the next war . |
| 4 | In a heart-rending telephone call to a US television station , Mrs Dragseth said the US embassy was of no help , and it seemed incompetent even to register the fact of his abduction . |
| 5 | If if it seemed advisable not to eat the fish , would that be a big problem for the ? |
| 6 | THE 600 workers at adhesives giant Evostick nearly came unstuck yesterday following a surprise takeover bid . |
| 7 | At first it seemed big enough to drive a train through . |
| 8 | I own this house , by the way , but it seemed wasteful not to have a tenant on the upper storey . |
| 9 | However , it seemed fair enough to start the climb in the hope of an improvement . |
| 10 | The business plan presented in April by the new chairman , David Rowland , seemed radical enough to relaunch the market . |
| 11 | Ideally , the spine ought to be next to the sail and at the intersections , the loop on the centre bridle made large enough to permit the spine to slip through . |
| 12 | Over two or three days it suddenly became malign enough to seem a reflection of Bella 's casual slaughter of their lives , and at last he rose in revolt . |
| 13 | ( Swore blind not to touch the telephone ) |
| 14 | By the end of the year , Biya felt strong enough to force a showdown with Ahidjo and the latter lost the position of party chairman while still abroad . |
| 15 | On 3 December , when the Soviet had survived fifty days , the government felt strong enough to arrest the Executive Committee and over 200 deputies and to destroy the organization . |
| 16 | He even felt strong enough to issue a threat . |
| 17 | However , by 1981 , in the context of wider cultural and social movements to the right , the proponents of the older conception of English felt strong enough to launch an attack on the new pluralism be grounded firmly in the study of the " classics of English literature . " |
| 18 | Eventually I felt strong enough to write the truth to Margaret . |
| 19 | McCrory , 28 , quit to the ring after being knocked out in two rounds by Lewis 21 months ago but trimmed back down to cruiser and felt strong enough to make a comeback . |
| 20 | Now she felt strong enough to shake the memories out of it . |
| 21 | I regret the fact that the hon. Member for Livingston saw fit not to answer the challenge that I laid down to him , just as he has not answered any of the challenges that I have laid down to him today , and that he has also seen fit to put the hon. Lady , on her first outing today , into a rather difficult position . |
| 22 | After a minute or two I felt well enough to resume the climb , all the time now focusing my imagination on her waiting , sad but hopeful , in the Wheel Room , in her box made of Bibles . |
| 23 | The next stage was to meet the family — two daughters and a son who , having read an appreciation of du Maurier written by Forster , felt confident enough to give the go-ahead for a full-scale biography . |
| 24 | Having set up a presence in the south east with representative offices in Japan , P&W felt confident enough to establish a bridgehead in Glasgow and it opened an office in the city last January . |
| 25 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 26 | If you were going to live your life again , how old would you think you 'd have to be before you felt mature enough to make the decision to get married ? |
| 27 | She hurried on , in case Mrs Whitfield felt obliged actually to answer the question , " But I am sure he 'll say yes . " |
| 28 | Even if continued economic growth proved feasible there remains the question of whether it is desirable . |