Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 2 | How can she possibly know somebody well enough to get married , the little ninny ! |
| 3 | ‘ Julie , whoever those men are , whoever this Farrell is , they want something badly enough to kill for it . |
| 4 | It was not until they had rounded a bend in the road , and the echoes of Master Thomas 's good wishes had long since died away , that Isabel managed to pull herself together enough to recall her resolution to put fitzAlan at a safe distance — and keep him there . |
| 5 | Francis believes he could become Alan Shearer 's partner in the England side , and rated him highly enough to agree a new , four-year contract in the summer worth £4,000 a week . |
| 6 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 7 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 8 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 9 | Rosalba baked special almond biscuits , hoops of crumbly nuts and fine sugar , intending to wrap some in coloured papers and offer them to Tommaso 's mother as a gift for the feast ; but could not , because , as she was about to set off , she realised that she did not know her well enough to call and give her a present . |
| 10 | After Leonora 's stitches were removed , painlessly , to her relief , Penry pronounced her well enough to help with his articles , since typing proved to be another of her accomplishments . |
| 11 | She was now only a step away from her target , so she was n't far from getting to know him well enough to question him about his allegiance — just as long as she could keep his escort sweet , which would probably mean more bondage if that was the only way he could get his nuts off . |
| 12 | I do n't I do n't really know it well enough to tell you what a nitrogen cycle . |
| 13 | Do we really know anyone well enough to make up their mind for them ? |
| 14 | He should be encouraged and allowed to write it slowly enough to write it correctly . |
| 15 | Well , you ought to know it well enough to write five or six lines about it , which is all you need for a book . |
| 16 | We all knew that the Repubblichini were tools of the Nazis , used as spies and as a police force ; but they did not know us well enough to denounce us as anti-Fascists . |
| 17 | Malik mispunched Malcolm over mid-on , and Lamb 's little legs could n't carry him fast enough to get underneath the chance . |
| 18 | So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris . |
| 19 | you would have done it early enough to say , oh well , we can invite somebody else . |
| 20 | The Bishop of London , who was responsible for church organization in America , suggested in 1749 that a bishopric should be created for the American colonies ; nonconformist Protestants in England and in America opposed it strongly enough to lead the government to lay the idea aside . |
| 21 | Whether Darrel McHargue would have won on Commanche Run is irrelevant , for this was vintage Lester Piggott — the jockey completely at one with his horse , pushing it just enough to achieve maximum effort but always keeping it balanced , willing and galloping straight for the line . |
| 22 | He 'd hear the engine starting , of course , but , by the time he 'd got himself together enough to do anything about it , she should at least have a head start . |
| 23 | This emotion which , even as I planned to drive to Prague , while admitting only to liking you well enough to want to ease any problems that might arise , made me instruct Lubor … ’ |
| 24 | They would n't have had it long enough to clear their own ground rent . |
| 25 | Only so can he choose whether to stay in it or leave , only so can he ever see it clearly enough to try to change it . |
| 26 | I find the easiest way is not to attempt to free the yarn from the sinker plate completely , but to free it just enough to enable you to push the carriage on past the weaving yarn . |
| 27 | She would need stock , after all , and if the selection was n't too impossible she could probably keep it long enough to clear it . |
| 28 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 29 | ‘ The Vetch ’ is a really good restaurant ; so good , I ca n't afford to eat there , but I have played there on occasions and most of the staff know me well enough to stop for a drink and a chat . |
| 30 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |