Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | That eventually took them down the wide , steep main street of a small town , then the road narrowed , crossed an old stone bridge , and began to climb , leaving behind the houses , the church with its tall , graceful steeple , and the half-timbered buildings . |
| 2 | At least , I was grateful enough to send them a copy of the thesis , but there is no evidence that they read it or found it useful . |
| 3 | Cold , and terrified of growing colder , so that when he opened his arms and put them around her , his musk-scented cloak coming with them , ample enough to cover them both , all she felt was the salvation of his warmth , his hard , hot body supporting her as she shook and shivered against him , that blessed , beautiful fur enclosing her as in a nest , muffling her from the killing storm . |
| 4 | If elderly people are persuaded to uproot themselves in a hurry at the first sign of trouble , making major decisions at a time when they are not emotionally stable enough to think them through , like selling their homes and moving away from old friends and familiar surroundings into the different world and routine of a younger household , they sometimes regret it , and much unhappiness ensues for everyone . |
| 5 | They leased them to the spa innkeepers , who eventually became rich enough to purchase them . |
| 6 | Shops like these are the only outlets for such abominations , and the only way you can stop the terrors of opening horrible gifts and feigning delight is to become rich enough to buy them out and turn them into cake shops . |
| 7 | Dacia was not strong enough to beat off the barbarians , and not rich enough to satisfy them once they had conquered it . |
| 8 | Or not even that long have they ? |
| 9 | The gun is loud enough to frighten them just as much ; but , calm , surgical thing that it is , it improves your chance of a first-time kill . |
| 10 | What else could you do but be strong enough to carry them ? |
| 11 | Certainly the Gulf Stream is quite strong enough to carry them across the Atlantic to the shores of Europe . |
| 12 | They have to fly increasingly by the seat of their pants , knowing that their trouser-material is sometimes not going to be strong enough to hold them up . |
| 13 | to stop the rust , it just depends if it 's strong enough to hold them , the frame |
| 14 | The senate , however , consisted of more members of the nobility than of the emerging burgher class , for their economic situation was not strong enough to enable them to develop as they did in the cities of northern Italy and elsewhere in Europe . |
| 15 | I just was n't strong enough to lift them out myself . |
| 16 | In Pakistan , political sensitivities take priority , for despite Prime Minister Bhutto 's public commitment to a crusade against the drug barons , everybody knows that the new democracy is not strong enough to take them on . |
| 17 | Fortunately the London Union has been strong enough to keep them entirely out but these London houses , as soon as they get beyond the sphere of the … |
| 18 | He would very likely end up being confined for psychological tests , and Roirbak doubted whether , in Tammuz' present teetering condition , he 'd be strong enough to face them and emerge intact . |
| 19 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
| 20 | The risk-averse businesses we have described above will be reluctant to increase investment , stockbuilding , output and employment until evidence of a recovery in demand is strong enough to make them much more optimistic about the future . |
| 21 | Some anonymous little department at D15 that took care of people who got out of line , but would that necessarily mean they 'd have a go at me ? |
| 22 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 23 | He turned , incredulous , to stare , and saw half his array of bowmen , the Welsh-born half , standing mute and grim with bows on shoulders , some slowly raising them , some fitting the shafts ; and he knew , by their faces and their movements , where those shafts were bound . |
| 24 | This effectively prevented them from interfering in matters of state , or fomenting rebellion . |
| 25 | This effectively cut them out from higher education . |
| 26 | If mixing causes difficulties , will the dementia sufferers gain from a segregated day centre or segregated days in a day centre or hospital , or will this merely put them at a disadvantage ? b Literature Arie ( 1979 ) states that we need to know more of the pros and cons of integration in day hospitals . |
| 27 | They represent a time when either their objects were not the same as those of the official organization , or the CCO was not enterprising enough to suit them . |
| 28 | There were no landmarks , no features by which they could determine their position even if it had been light enough to see them . |
| 29 | There are occasional arrivals of odd specimens of Fairy Basslets which are not easily identified , and some , as in the case of Pseudanthias pulcherimus from the western Indian Ocean have male and female forms different enough to cause them to be frequently treated as separate species . |
| 30 | It was painful enough knowing they had both let their love for each other slip so easily away , but the speed with which he 'd filled the void she 'd left really cut into her . |