Example sentences of "[was/were] lucky [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they were lucky enough to find a skylark 's nest they might not want to spoil the countryside for all of us . |
| 2 | An early aircraft it was returned to Boeing at Everett for structural testing to destruction on April 5 , 1988 and the Science Museum were lucky enough to secure a cross section , including the upper deck . |
| 3 | ‘ I came straight to Cochabamba with my family because we were lucky enough to have the money from my book and I 'd bought this land before leaving Bolivia in 1980 . |
| 4 | In connection with the Queen of the Night and her birds , I was lucky enough to see an example of such interaction recently when I watched a woman falconer give a demonstration of her art . |
| 5 | In the Sokol valley I was lucky enough to watch a stock circling above for several minutes . |
| 6 | I was lucky enough to receive an invitation for the special AGM held at the Guildhall London , attended by Lady Baden-Powell and other Guiding dignitaries including a lady who has been connected with Guiding for all its 75 years . |
| 7 | In 1884 New Zealand was lucky enough to acquire a railway architect and engineer who had been trained in Scotland . |
| 8 | I was lucky enough to join the makers of Gospel Green , a Sussex-made hard cheese , to watch the cheesemaking in process . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ I was here last year with the Irish team and was lucky enough to score a couple of tries in the Test that we lost in Dunedin . |
| 10 | Just as I was about to give up zoology , I was lucky enough to attend a lecture by the great ethologist Niko Tinbergen . |
| 11 | Alan was lucky enough to discover a scorpion in the fruit bowl . |
| 12 | He delivered his dissertation on time , was awarded his doctorate , and was lucky enough to obtain a lectureship in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Suffolk , ‘ the last new job in Romanticism this century ’ , as he was wont to describe it , with justifiable hyperbole . |
| 13 | Later I was lucky enough to obtain a copy of his Impressionist Painting in Oils , a , small handbook published by The Artists ' Publishing Co . |
| 14 | The only difference her success made was that she thought her an incompetent fool who was lucky enough to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 15 | Several weeks later , John was lucky enough to find a home , but Poppy did n't have to cope alone for long . |
| 16 | If a man was lucky enough to get a job it was expected that he would use his position to find jobs for others in his family or village . |
| 17 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I got in touch with your old man , baby , and then I was lucky enough to get a lift to this — this Wilderness place . ’ |
| 19 | I auditioned along with everyone else and was lucky enough to get the part . |
| 20 | At Glasgow School of Art , she was lucky enough to have a teacher who understood that an artist has to ‘ break down some kind of barrier within yourself ’ , transcending stifling Scottish morality . |
| 21 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |