Example sentences of "someone [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She needs someone solid and dependable , with their feet on the ground , someone strong enough to take her instability , her neurotic insecurity — ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd think someone rich enough to own a rig like this could afford a pair of fenders . ’ |
| 3 | Nor is it , unless applied by someone brave enough to face up to all the disturbing hypotheses that can arise in the course of it . |
| 4 | Winston Smith seeks such things in Orwell 's last book when he enters the slums of London to find someone old enough to remember an England he himself had never known . |
| 5 | I have probably saved you from years of frustration , waiting and hoping for someone good enough to come along and kill the one I have taken from you . ’ |
| 6 | Maybe someone bold enough to improvise like that would even take the risk of getting himself really knocked out and dropped in the water , knowing I could n't fail to find him in a few minutes . ’ |
| 7 | Like every well-known actor playing tough characters , there was always someone drunk enough to shove him in the back with the challenge , ‘ OK , Mr Tough Guy , let's see how tough you really are . ’ |