Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [adj] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not sensitive enough to realize that it was all my fault , and that if I had n't considered him common , he would n't have been so clumsy . |
| 2 | ‘ My lord , I have good reason to know that it was you who said a word for me in his Grace 's ear , and gave me this day for thought , and even offered me arguments I was not wise enough to find for myself . |
| 3 | Eventually , I came to my senses and accepted that I was not fit enough to train like a 2:10 marathoner . |
| 4 | Even though I put a lot of work into the gigs , I was not foolish enough to believe they were important when we were playing to 40 people in London . |
| 5 | What I had n't considered was that she was much bigger than me and that I was n't strong enough to keep both her and the bicycle upright : inevitably she lost her balance and fell heavily on the road with me and the bicycle on top of her . |
| 6 | I pushed with both hands but I was n't strong enough to get a squeak out of it . |
| 7 | Nigel would pretend to patronise me , and I would pretend I was n't clever enough to notice ; and he would be swankier than he really was , and I would be more boring ; but we knew what we were doing and we were friends . |
| 8 | Fortunately I was n't close enough to see whether the prediction was correct , or if the beaker was in fact too small . |
| 9 | I was n't vain enough to think that the way she had come on to me that first night was solely down to my resistless charms . |
| 10 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |
| 11 | ‘ Considering everything , I was quite pleased with my form , but I was n't sharp enough to take my chances . ’ |
| 12 | I was n't desperate enough to get under the lawn-mower . |
| 13 | I was n't naive enough to expect the goodies to win every time , but over the long-haul , and certainly in the last reel , I sort of weakly , vaguely , wetly assumed that things would come right . |
| 14 | I told you I loved you — I was even fool enough to ask you to move in with me . |
| 15 | I was even lucky enough to rub shoulders with my perspiring hero Mickey Mouse , under a maze of tunnels beneath Paramount studios three years ago . |
| 16 | I was just old enough to become crazy about cowboy films , but even handsome Buck Jones could n't make me like Auntie Julie any better . |
| 17 | If I was good enough to employ , surely I was also good enough to make it on my own ? ’ |
| 18 | However I was also intelligent enough to realize that , because of my extensive reading on the topic , I was capable of inventing a pretty good story about life in that period . |
| 19 | I was also smart enough to wait three weeks , so it was at her request I departed in the end . |
| 20 | Mike said : ‘ I really enjoyed the show which was very informative and I was also lucky enough to meet many celebrities . ’ |
| 21 | Well I tell you rough , the food was rough , I was never lucky enough to get into into any billet same as some of them got . |
| 22 | Sometimes I braved the elements and went out to the garage and thought about a hosepipe on the exhaust of the car , but I was never brave enough to face real oblivion , although when I went to bed at night , I used to refer to it as slipping into oblivion . |
| 23 | On my sixteenth birthday I walked into the house with a fag in every orifice ; I was legally old enough to smoke , so , I thought , just try and stop me ! |
| 24 | To meet fully matured politicians of the higher quality at a time when I was still young enough to sharpen my wits on their arguments and dialectics was a real — and in my case an undeserved — pleasure . |
| 25 | Yet suspecting and knowing are two different things , and I was still naive enough to want to believe that all policemen could be trusted . |
| 26 | With their subsequent production , It Pays To Advertise ( 1924 ) , they moved to the Aldwych Theatre , where they were joined in 1925 by the playwright Ben Travers [ q.v. ] , who was to describe Lynn in his memoirs as ‘ the greatest farcical actor I was ever lucky enough to know and watch and work with ’ . |
| 27 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 28 | He had only one candle which was not powerful enough to start such a blaze so quickly whilst the fire was whitened ash . ’ |
| 29 | The blocks were placed in a long tray which was just wide enough to accommodate them and the tray was then subjected to a series of sharp shocks , very similar to the succussion process . |
| 30 | The use of The Atlas as described by Wilson , represented an alliance between them , albeit temporary , which was quite effective enough to bring the NAS&FU 's best efforts to naught . |