Example sentences of "have done enough " in BNC.

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1 We say that he has done enough damage in bringing about the birth of this child , in giving him a father who does not know he is his father , a mother who is so ice-cold a scientist that she willingly abandons her own child to the researcher in the laboratory , where he will inevitably be regarded in the same light as any other laboratory animal .
2 Do n't you think that man has done enough harm to Jennifer as it is without inflicting any more pain on her ? ’
3 Mr Lamont also used the news as an opportunity to rule out once again any more cuts in interest rates in the immediate future , saying the signs of spontaneous recovery confirm his judgement that he has done enough to bring the recession to an end .
4 But if , as seems likely , the Chancellor 's commitment to take more than £6 billion out of the economy in 1994-5 and £10 billion in 1995-6 has done enough to reassure the foreign-exchange markets , the risk of a big misjudgment of market sentiment will diminish over the next few days .
5 The verdict of the City on whether Mr Lamont has done enough to curb public spending will be delivered when the markets open today .
6 Instead , he came back with such surprising ferocity of his own that by the bell at least one judge thought he 'd done enough to win the round .
7 He must have done enough to be selected for the next match .
8 McKenzie looked as if he might have done enough to retain his crown after coming back from a ninth-round crisis in which he was floored by a two-punch combination to the body .
9 And in particular the position of Paisley and the DUP was enhanced by having done enough to prove themselves implacably opposed to appeasement of ‘ rebels ’ while distancing themselves sufficiently from the working-class loyalists to avoid the opprobrium of being closely associated with thugs and gangsters .
10 After all , when he starred as champion boxer Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , he put on 60lbs and is reputed to have done enough training to have earned a place in the top twenty world middleweight rankings .
11 ‘ But I 've done enough crying .
12 I 've done enough work for you recently — what about some money ? ’
13 And I 've done enough damage here already . ’
14 Are you satisfied that you 've done enough examination of your existing towns and villages to come to that conclusion ?
15 Erm on the question of whether or not we 're satisfied that we 've done enough examination to reach our conclusion , we 've examined our greenbelt boundaries on two occasions , firstly as part of the Greater York study , and secondly as part of the work on the Southern Ryedale local plan .
16 Trial and error , I do n't know , I think I 've done enough of that .
17 You leave well alone , you 've done enough damage .
18 come on and put your feet up you 've done enough
19 I do n't think I 've done enough potatoes , oh dear . .
20 On the balance of last night 's play , Everton were entitled to feel that they had done enough to take Forest back to Goodison Park .
21 Both riders had done enough to be disqualified .
22 The house was big and old , with a lot more corridors and rooms and unexpected turns than seemed necessary , but she had done enough of these ‘ entertainments ’ to be familiar with the lower storeys .
23 It was not unknown for Herbie Connors to be about at this time , and Yanto had done enough running for one night .
24 The lay brother was quiet , contenting himself with the dry comment that he had done enough penance to wipe a thousand years of purgatory from the debt his soul owed God .
25 It looked as though Forest had done enough to earn a valuable point when Barmby picked up a loose ball in the area and crossed for Mabbutt to score .
26 Senior Tory backbenchers were last night boasting the Government had done enough to stave off the humiliation of a defeat in the Commons .
27 The Falcon 's Joe Stamper was the only winner at Colchester — Essex play notoriously badly on their own carpets — but the late surge in Norfolk had done enough to secure the majority of the points .
28 At last , Swan must have decided they had done enough teasing .
29 For that reason , many people , at least until recently , would have been forgiving of Germany 's decision to abandon the symbol of its guilty conscience by repealing the right to asylum : the reformed character had done enough to show that it was not recidivist .
30 He may have felt nervous about having plundered Calcutta or he may have thought he had done enough to show who was master in Bengal , but in any case he withdrew and paid the Company some compensation for its losses .
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