Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a servaton finally appeared , I ordered a goblet of the fuming Paoostyc liquor called Old Sunburst , raised my mask just enough to gulp it , then ordered two more . |
| 2 | ‘ I raised my game just enough to get through the early rounds , ’ he said of his performance . |
| 3 | ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’ |
| 4 | She ran them down my arm lightly enough to make me shiver . |
| 5 | He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote . |
| 6 | They were eminently suited to the work and knew their ship and its equipment well enough to keep things going which also suited the administration at Headquarters . |
| 7 | The party behind , in another special , paid their engineer well enough to drive into the rear coach and smash it — they being rivals with the stranded party to serve the same area with a new railway . |
| 8 | Leaning across to the fellows closest to him , he attracted their attention long enough to introduce Loretta . |
| 9 | Hollywood stars Kurt Russell , William Baldwin and Scott Glenn , who play Chicago firemen in Backdraft , took their roles and their safety seriously enough to train as firemen for several weeks before filming began . |
| 10 | Did she know her husband well enough to come to rescue him from the consequences of his own indiscretions ? |
| 11 | Most college teachers are more down-to-earth : solid citizens and safe , intellectual craft workers , who mostly know and love their subject well enough to wish to share their enthusiasm for it with their students . |
| 12 | She raised her voice just enough to hint at domination . |
| 13 | Was her voice loud enough to carry to the next table ? |
| 14 | I told him to pull his engine rpm down to 1,600 , to put his mixture control to auto-lean and to open his throttle wide enough to stay in loose formation with me … |
| 15 | He raised his head long enough to look at her , a question glittering in the blue eyes , and she answered it breathlessly , raising her eyes to his . |
| 16 | Bénezet had been in his service long enough to understand his own part in the operation in hand without having to be told . |
| 17 | Siward cleared his throat loudly enough to make Ligulf glance at him and then sit back . |
| 18 | It will not fit our practice well enough to count as an eligible interpretation , and its normative program will be empty , because it instructs us to follow conventions that do not exist . |
| 19 | First , you are likely to succeed in anything only if you make the steps to your goal easy enough to manage . |
| 20 | ‘ Hah , Suragai , you are learning our language well enough to argue in it . ’ |
| 21 | Because I 've been watching the front of your house long enough to know . |