Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] enough [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not move fast enough to support him . |
| 2 | Conservatives tend to stress the ‘ will not ’ : jobs exist , but people do not take them ; jobs do not pay enough , or people do not try hard enough to find them . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the real value of land is constant ; and capital invested in it will not deteriorate with inflation ; in the long term the purchase of a smallholding even at inflated prices , can make sense if the buyer can hold back enough to put it in order , and stock and equip it . |
| 4 | In the NI 's first editorial by a woman , Maggie Black described the beauty of a 15-year-old Ethiopian girl she met on the road to Selekleka and mourned the transience of that beauty ‘ if policies do n't change fast enough to avoid her back being bent , her hands calloused , her body broken , by the time she is 30 ’ . |
| 5 | I do n't think I 'd live long enough to see it mature . |
| 6 | He did n't live long enough to understand it . |
| 7 | The bureau can not operate quickly enough to give us anything approaching a real-time set of accounts . |
| 8 | They got trapped in a hole , and no one could get near enough to get them out . |
| 9 | Jessica and Mallachy had moved beyond armed politeness , but not significantly , and there was a palpable edge to many of their exchanges that Karen assumed meant they fancied each other , but could not climb down enough to acknowledge it . |
| 10 | Creggan could not turn fast enough to catch them before they dropped untidily into the safety of the trees below . |