Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They leased them to the spa innkeepers , who eventually became rich enough to purchase them . |
| 2 | The family became rich enough to send VS Naipaul to university in England . |
| 3 | But this can hardly be our fault when we consider how Milton manages , with or without intention , to build up a wonderfully vivid and intriguing portrait of Satan and offers little else to give any sense of decent , moral , proportion . |
| 4 | ( N. B. If a client bought one stock today , and sold another tomorrow to pay for it , the time difference served as a cover for the dealer 's churning . |
| 5 | Love had found its proper expression when she became old enough to repeat little verses her governess taught her , mostly in French , or to stumble ludicrously through songs her mother sang . |
| 6 | Considerable concern was expressed , for example by R. H. Tawney , about the numbers of boys going from school into unskilled jobs with little prospect of advancement , from which they might be dismissed when they became old enough to qualify for higher adult earnings . |
| 7 | In fact she was so kind to me that I became brave enough to ask a question . |
| 8 | ‘ Once the kids got old enough to see for themselves what he was like , they packed their bags and left . |
| 9 | A strange thought : I would not want this not to have happened . |
| 10 | No longer are my positive and negative leads just hanging free about to blow a fuse or allow my personal electricity to seep away . |
| 11 | It looks solid enough to take our weight , ’ he murmured . |
| 12 | so 's Christmas why should n't so why should n't we not celebrate that so to speak ? |
| 13 | In summary , I am looking for a jacket which is wind and water proof , breathable , looks respectable enough to turn up at the office in , and offers conspicuity . |
| 14 | Press that down to make it sto stay . |
| 15 | You will probably need this anyway to reestablish forward flight . |
| 16 | ‘ Christmas and the New Year is the peak booking season , so we are announcing this now to stimulate maximum interest , ’ said a spokeswoman . |
| 17 | To add to the uncertainty , the age at which a person is considered old enough to vote may be different from that at which they are allowed to marry or fight for their country . |
| 18 | At sixteen or seventeen many adolescents in the sample were considered old enough to make up their own minds about issues such as smoking , exercise , and diet ; it was often left entirely up to them to contact doctors , dentists , and sometimes schools for undiscovered GCSE results . |
| 19 | OK , we kicked off with a win at Chamden , but they only had five men and most of those looked old enough to remember Bolton Wanderers on Match of the Day . |
| 20 | I would not have him survive this only to die of a broken heart . ’ |
| 21 | There are detailed records kept on all the weights made which are just becoming old enough to become ‘ Working ’ weights following controlled storage during the essential metal stabilisation period . |
| 22 | I was obviously deemed old enough to look after myself . |
| 23 | So I tried half heartedly to diet and each week put the results to the test . |
| 24 | She had looked unkempt enough to amuse Marie earlier ; now , she looked even worse . |
| 25 | It was becoming easy enough to find biochemical changes that occurred when an animal learned ; the problem was to show that such changes were really part of the memory-making process . |
| 26 | Swap these over to try the other way before you decide which is best . |
| 27 | Certainly the house hardly looked large enough to support a private chapel . |
| 28 | It was an open tourer having a folding hood and never looked large enough to take four adults . |
| 29 | When , even with their minimal research and development funding , some renewables have looked promising enough to threaten the nuclear hegemony their prospects have been unceremoniously ditched . |
| 30 | This little joined-up screenshot map has been assembled from a pre-production level of Lemmings on a Commodore 64 , and we reckon it already looks good enough to release . |