Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] enough [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Francis believes he could become Alan Shearer 's partner in the England side , and rated him highly enough to agree a new , four-year contract in the summer worth £4,000 a week .
2 After Leonora 's stitches were removed , painlessly , to her relief , Penry pronounced her well enough to help with his articles , since typing proved to be another of her accomplishments .
3 The Bishop of London , who was responsible for church organization in America , suggested in 1749 that a bishopric should be created for the American colonies ; nonconformist Protestants in England and in America opposed it strongly enough to lead the government to lay the idea aside .
4 Other women might be able to cope with an affair that was based on passion and nothing else , but she knew herself well enough to realise she could only be permanently scarred by such an involvement .
5 She knew herself well enough to know that if he challenged her account in the latter mode she 'd almost certainly lose her temper with him , and then the atmosphere between them , which had been ( with the exception of his overtures ) so easy and undemanding , would be spoiled .
6 Who was there here who knew her well enough to discern and identify any flaws in her own polished public persona ?
7 I knew him well enough to spot that .
8 Already she knew him well enough to realise he would never make threats he was n't prepared to carry out .
9 Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward .
10 But Amanda knew him well enough to suspect that he might be bluffing .
11 And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) .
12 Theodore Mann , co-founder and producer of Circle-In-The-Square since 1951 , had seen Dustin on stage and wanted him badly enough to have dismissed two directors instead of the actor .
13 She offered to come down for the weekend to help , and Carolyn wanted her badly enough to hesitate before putting her off .
14 When it was fully clear of the cave , three of the hunters then simultaneously seized it by head , tail and centre and held it straight enough to feed head-first into an open sack held by the fourth man .
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