Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been tough going , but Proby was grateful enough to knock a century off the £500 I owe him . |
| 2 | ‘ The last time I was in England I was foolish enough to take a woman into my confidence . |
| 3 | However , in reaffirming it as an objective , Mr Kinnock was careful not to set a timescale for reducing unemployment to between 750,000 and one million , depending on circumstances . |
| 4 | ‘ Since I was old enough to carry a money-bag , I 've trudged round the streets , knocking on every door of every property you own … aye , and sometimes I 've had a fist in my face for the trouble , but never once have I let you down . |
| 5 | She tried to imagine how she would look when she was old enough to wear a wig , like her mother and the great ladies of the court who surrounded Queen Ankhsenpaamun , though the queen was not much older than she was herself . |
| 6 | Cos the girls were a little bit different sort of understand , I think Matthew suffered , Matthew was the one that , that had suffered through it , he was four , and he was old enough to understand a little bit more he knew how brushing off on him |
| 7 | I became involved with the inhabitants as soon as I was old enough to overturn a leaf . |
| 8 | Mungo looked up and was relieved not to see a face at the window . |
| 9 | I I had er a return ticket from York to Gloucester and I was fortunate enough to get a lift back so I went into the station to ask if I could get a refund on the other half of the return and they said Sure you owe us four pounds . |
| 10 | In 1961 , I was fortunate enough to win a by-election in the constituency of Worcester . |
| 11 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 12 | I had visited Paris once or twice , but now I was fortunate enough to secure a grant from the LCC — £15 , but princely for those days — which permitted me to spend a week or two there for the purpose of study , my subject being modern French philosophy . |
| 13 | He was lucky not to get a prison sentence and claims that since that time he has remained sober . |
| 14 | In the Sokol valley I was lucky enough to watch a stock circling above for several minutes . |
| 15 | In 1884 New Zealand was lucky enough to acquire a railway architect and engineer who had been trained in Scotland . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ I was here last year with the Irish team and was lucky enough to score a couple of tries in the Test that we lost in Dunedin . |
| 17 | Just as I was about to give up zoology , I was lucky enough to attend a lecture by the great ethologist Niko Tinbergen . |
| 18 | Alan was lucky enough to discover a scorpion in the fruit bowl . |
| 19 | He delivered his dissertation on time , was awarded his doctorate , and was lucky enough to obtain a lectureship in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Suffolk , ‘ the last new job in Romanticism this century ’ , as he was wont to describe it , with justifiable hyperbole . |
| 20 | Later I was lucky enough to obtain a copy of his Impressionist Painting in Oils , a , small handbook published by The Artists ' Publishing Co . |
| 21 | The only difference her success made was that she thought her an incompetent fool who was lucky enough to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 22 | Several weeks later , John was lucky enough to find a home , but Poppy did n't have to cope alone for long . |
| 23 | If a man was lucky enough to get a job it was expected that he would use his position to find jobs for others in his family or village . |
| 24 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I got in touch with your old man , baby , and then I was lucky enough to get a lift to this — this Wilderness place . ’ |
| 26 | At Glasgow School of Art , she was lucky enough to have a teacher who understood that an artist has to ‘ break down some kind of barrier within yourself ’ , transcending stifling Scottish morality . |
| 27 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |
| 28 | One tree was large enough to allow a motorcar to pass through it . |
| 29 | The only thing she 'd done is make a small scratch with a rose thorn and was unfortunate enough to get a piece of contaminated soil |
| 30 | and th they , it was an old Indian treatment , they found it quite , sheer force of circumstances , er , that they discovered it was better sometimes to bind a wound up and leave it alone . |