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 | It looks solid enough to take our weight , ’ he murmured . |
| 10 | so 's Christmas why should n't so why should n't we not celebrate that so to speak ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You will probably need this anyway to reestablish forward flight . |
| 13 | ‘ Christmas and the New Year is the peak booking season , so we are announcing this now to stimulate maximum interest , ’ said a spokeswoman . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I would not have him survive this only to die of a broken heart . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was obviously deemed old enough to look after myself . |
| 20 | So I tried half heartedly to diet and each week put the results to the test . |
| 21 | She had looked unkempt enough to amuse Marie earlier ; now , she looked even worse . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Certainly the house hardly looked large enough to support a private chapel . |
| 24 | It was an open tourer having a folding hood and never looked large enough to take four adults . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Salisbury looks good enough to stay for a while , although he briefly gives Sussex once again two players with three initials who have each played for England only once , the other being A.C.S. Pigott . |
| 28 | Katharine Over has only been studying Japanese for a year , but she 's already considered good enough to act as an ambassador for Britain . |
| 29 | It used to hurt me that an African who was considered good enough to hand the cement to the man to lay the bricks could n't get the opportunity to lay the bricks himself and become a qualified tradesman . " |
| 30 | If you want to smell good enough to eat , try their Knights in White Chocolate massage block which is a delicious combination of real white chocolate and cocoa butter — a real sweet treat at £2.75 for 35 grams ! |