Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SINGER Melanie O'Reilly drew a standing-room only attendance for the last of the inaugural season of Assembly Direct 's ‘ The Jazz Club ’ promotions . |
| 2 | Burton found a burned out dinghy on the waterline with German markings . |
| 3 | Put like that , it seemed a simple enough equation , and at least now , she thought , she could be on her guard , would not let anything get in the way of level-headed logic . |
| 4 | He had seen the boy once or twice since , and he seemed a nice enough lad — a little backward perhaps , but his mother was ashamed of him , and refused to send him to school , perhaps fearing the other children would tease him . |
| 5 | Vincente seemed a pleasant enough bloke when he turned up on that first morning . |
| 6 | Folly had to admit that it seemed an efficient enough system . |
| 7 | It seemed an innocent enough thing to do . |
| 8 | It seemed an ordinary enough night when Anne Simonsen set out to work at the Marina Hotel in Copenhagen where she had a job as part-time barmaid . |
| 9 | It must , however , be said that measurements of shingle movement made by Hardy ( 1964 ) showed a dominant eastwards movement of material on Blakeney Point , one of the main features of this district . |
| 10 | He believed that if the paper made a big enough impact and was raved about by the industry , there would be a rush to save it even if it did n't sell enough to make a profit . |
| 11 | She got a big enough fright when I said : ‘ Excuse me , but your wee laddie is filling your bag with apples that I 'm sure you 'll not be wanting . |
| 12 | It looked a reasonable enough distance , so I made my way towards it . |
| 13 | She was tall and had a slender enough waist for him to have spanned it with his hands , and he was amazed at how strongly he wished he could be given the chance . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , even if their cosmology , like that of all religions , was expressed in fantastic terms , the Siberian natives , like the ‘ primitive ’ peoples of any land , had a rational enough view of the world which surrounded them , in addition to a wealth of practical knowledge about the forest and its fauna , and about crafts and hunting techniques . |
| 15 | If we had a large enough sample of observations on Y t , X t and Z t we would expect a linear regression of Y t on X t and Z t to yield the result that the estimates of 1 and 22 were the same — except for sampling variation — if it really is true that . |
| 16 | Speed : Had a quiet enough game including the goal . |
| 17 | More and more instructions , more and more complex in their nature descended more and more frequently upon local offices , but without any adequately effective co-ordination at the Headquarters level to ensure that those in the outfield had a clear enough idea of what their order of priorities should be as they became less and less able to deal effectively with the totality of their responsibilities . |
| 18 | In fact she had been approached by wealthier men than Jonas , whose interests in her were sometimes honourable but mostly not , and she had a realistic enough sense of her attraction not to be ruffled by anything her cousin could say . |
| 19 | He longed to discuss Meredith further , his background , his opinions — on the surface he sounded a sensible enough sort of fellow but he did n't know how to go about it . |
| 20 | It sounded a trivial enough disturbance on the surface , but it seemed as though there might be substance in Tom Watt 's fears after all . |