Example sentences of "up enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 2 | Even if neither we nor they were quite clued up enough to realise that Jethro Tull was a group and not the inventor of the seed drill ! |
| 3 | Sometimes it can take up to eight miles before it is warmed up enough to stop having to keep a foot on the accelerator at traffic lights , etc . |
| 4 | This would cause the earths atmosphere to heat up enough to kill most forms of life and would also blanket out the suns light for years to come . |
| 5 | I was even planning which tank I would be moving my 43 babies ( I had carefully counted the eggs ) to when they had grown up enough to go into a larger tank . |
| 6 | When I got the job on the building site , Mr Jackson said I was grown up enough to live on my own . |
| 7 | Or , to get at it another way , here is a miscellaneous list from my own notebook of possible motives for murder : financial gain , self-protection , to preserve status , fear , to protect a loved one , for a principle , for revenge ( but remember credibility here : only in some societies is revenge stoked up enough to lead to killing ) , the drive to power , compensation for past humiliation , removing a bar to sexual happiness ( bother the permissive society , but impediments do still exist ) , jealousy , the desire to cock a giant snook at the whole world . |
| 8 | I should 've tidied up a bit — that would 've made Mr Jackson think I 'm grown up enough to look after myself , but it 's too late now . |
| 9 | I 'm grown up enough to look after Satan . |
| 10 | By the time I reappeared , Lisabeth had cheered up enough to smile weakly , having adopted the invalid-on-the-sickbed routine . |
| 11 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 12 | It is high time Eubank put on another world-class performance , but opponents such as Gimenez simply do n't fire him up enough to produce his best . |
| 13 | But unhappy names are not ready to give up enough to produce a settlement . |
| 14 | Top-up orders indicate the restaurant is going to have to make do with existing equipment until trade picks up enough to pay for a complete replacement . |