Example sentences of "'d [verb] enough [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , ’ she said , when she 'd caught enough breath to speak , ‘ I am the keeper of the skylight carnival and I can let you see it .
2 By then she 'd saved enough money to go to Australia , but decided in the end that she could always travel later .
3 He 'd seen enough trees dose to the boundary to know he could use them to scale up , and his coat would protect him against the barbed wire .
4 And you end up writing guitar music which sometimes is okay , but after a couple of records I 'd written enough guitar music for a while .
5 She 'd suffered enough traumas and indignities already , she thought grimly .
6 The reason some of them failed to go to the causal ward is because they used to do a little bit of begging , and if they 'd got enough money they would perhaps pay to go into a common lodging house .
7 If you 'd got enough gas it would make bubbles .
8 On reflection , though , she doubted if she 'd got enough crocks or cutlery and ‘ what was they going ter sit on ? ’
9 But if you 'd got enough fabric , you would have just done the same
10 It was interesting to listen to the comments after the game from the Radio 5 reporter who said that we 'd had enough chances to last us ‘ till Christmas , maybe it 'll make a few people sit up and recognise that we have a team capable of winning something this season .
11 Theodora felt she 'd had enough surprises .
12 It would have taken him all day even if they 'd had enough tarmac in the back of the pickup !
13 They were telling him he 'd had enough drink and stop
14 So he made a cup of coffee ( realising , sensibly for once , that he 'd had enough alcohol ) , and sat down in the low upholstered chair with wooden arms that was one of the room 's few comforts .
15 But we had to go and take it into his culler I had one day at that , I thought I thought I 'd had enough coal .
16 Jay 'd had enough men to know they treat a woman 's body with anything from contempt and rage to inept uncertainty and fear ; once in a blue moon only , with real fascination and tenderness .
17 If it was her destiny to suffer in life , well , she 'd had enough practice , had n't she ?
18 I had no intention of taking the Transit up West — I 'd had enough trouble round the launderette , which doubles as a common room for the junior branch of the Hackney National Front — so I left it parked outside the front door in exactly the spot where Frank and Salome usually plug in the nightlight for their VW Golf .
19 well if I 'd known enough company she said , I 'd have been at home with me feet up
20 Although we we 'd had a modest week in terms of routes , we 'd found enough delight and challenge in the sunlit silence of the valley and the peaks — and now we knew the full potential of the place .
21 I decided I 'd caused enough mayhem for one day .
22 Besides , she 'd lost enough weight in the past weeks since she had walked out on Marcus not to have to worry about her seams splitting after the odd indulgence !
23 ‘ Steady , Bessie , ’ said Joe , who did n't intend to ask the ultimate of any woman until he 'd acquired enough savings to put an end to his career as a forger .
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