Example sentences of "[adv] enough [to-vb] [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 2 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 3 | Pinkie could still think quite clearly enough to know that he had very little prospect of a new commission . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've seen him play often enough to know that he will do a good job for us . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ But one does talk , and I know Peter well enough to guess that he would n't keep me against my will , just as I would n't want to keep him . |
| 7 | But Amanda knew him well enough to suspect that he might be bluffing . |
| 8 | His use of the ominous word ‘ precious ’ in The Fellowship of the Ring ( p. 266 ) had been quite enough to suggest that he was already becoming ‘ addicted ’ , that his death was in a way a mercy . |