Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know what you 're saying is right , Eve , but I 'm not sure I 'm man enough to do what you suggest . ’ |
| 2 | I was fool enough to think you might want to see me . ’ |
| 3 | Well I would n't want to put words in Mrs. Thatcher 's mouth , now if you 're man enough to do that go ahead . |
| 4 | So do n't think you 're man enough to tell me what to do . |
| 5 | Should you be pleb enough to require chips with breakfast , remember to ask for fries . |
| 6 | I knew Flora cared no more about my opinions than about the opinions of the rather derelict Arabs , drinking Coca-Cola at the bar — probably a good deal less , in fact , since theirs would be useful copy for her — but she was kind enough to pretend that she did , drew me out and flattered me until I felt witty and successful and told outrageous stories about people we knew . |
| 7 | It also contains good advice for those who are not sure whether they are will enough to make the trip or who have to advise others . |
| 8 | Money and effort that should have been devoted to supporting the ordinary people in Highfields has been wasted on power politics and I agree that it 's time surely to put an end to that disgrace now there is a certain logic in Mr amendment , it basically says let us put the implementation of council policy in the hands of the director of education , let him take executive control and let us take politics out of it and if I thought that that would do what both Mr and myself want to happen I would support . |
| 9 | It 's time now to turn our attention to how video can fit into our teaching as a whole . |
| 10 | Well it 's time now to hit the road with the London Sydney car marathon . |
| 11 | Well it 's time now to hit the road with the London Sydney car marathon . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's policy now to get these things done with all dispatch . |
| 13 | IT IS music just to listen to pianist John O'Conor talk in his Liffey-soused Dublin lilt . |
| 14 | An equivalent medical prognosis would be pessimistic to say the least , and it is time now to explore alternatives which will allow us to approach the 21st Century with confidence instead of indecision and fear . |
| 15 | It is time now to move on to consider the first of these . |
| 16 | Now you need to bring a friend or friends in to help you with your writing because it is time now to test out its effect upon other people . |
| 17 | It is time now to look at this in some detail and the rest of this section is devoted to an analysis of the Bank of England 's ‘ money market operations ’ as they are called . |
| 18 | It is time now to look at the sections of financial theory which are relevant for the valuation of securities . |
| 19 | It is time now to consider what contribution a rights-based theory might be able to make in developing such a moral position , and how that position might relate to a revised , more radical form of democratic theory . |
| 20 | It is time now to consider more precisely what the attitudinist says about the actual meaning of typically ethical words , like ‘ good ’ ’ ought' ’ right' and ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 21 | He is boy enough to enjoy , though with misgivings , a brutal practical joke against the ineffectual tutor who is supposed to educate the group of youths . |
| 22 | Many said it was bliss just to sit on the bales of straw and listen to the music . |
| 23 | It was time now to begin to write letters . |
| 24 | He could not deny that he had been an unfaithful husband , although he was gentleman enough to keep the names of his various inamoratas to himself . |
| 25 | He was hit on the side of the chest in 1748 but did not die until March 1751 , having contracted pleurisy four weeks previously when he was ass enough to inspect landscape gardening at Kew in icy weather . |
| 26 | ‘ He was kind enough to give me a few minutes after Evensong yesterday . ’ |
| 27 | He was kind enough to give me a lift home . ’ |
| 28 | You know , as she had no family or friends , he was kind enough to pay for her to go to school , and found her a job here with your uncle . |
| 29 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
| 30 | For Syl I felt no sympathy , since if he was fool enough to want me he deserved none . |