Example sentences of "he [be] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is boy enough to enjoy , though with misgivings , a brutal practical joke against the ineffectual tutor who is supposed to educate the group of youths . |
| 2 | He could not deny that he had been an unfaithful husband , although he was gentleman enough to keep the names of his various inamoratas to himself . |
| 3 | He was hit on the side of the chest in 1748 but did not die until March 1751 , having contracted pleurisy four weeks previously when he was ass enough to inspect landscape gardening at Kew in icy weather . |
| 4 | ‘ He was kind enough to give me a few minutes after Evensong yesterday . ’ |
| 5 | He was kind enough to give me a lift home . ’ |
| 6 | You know , as she had no family or friends , he was kind enough to pay for her to go to school , and found her a job here with your uncle . |
| 7 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
| 8 | For Syl I felt no sympathy , since if he was fool enough to want me he deserved none . |
| 9 | He was man enough to smile , and it made Arthur Marshall laugh , which was always a wonderful sight . |
| 10 | ‘ He was cross enough to spit . |