Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv] enough [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I guess I 've had long enough to accept it . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've had quite enough to drink , ’ she said , ‘ without you rotating like a top all night . |
| 3 | The chairman , Don Perry , is standing down ( ‘ I 've had quite enough hassle ’ ) and the county will shortly name their coach to succeed John Shepherd . |
| 4 | And I can understand them not having the pricing right , I do n't think they 've spent long enough working out what the prices of things are . |
| 5 | I 've wasted quite enough time this morning already . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've taken long enough to do a simple errand , I must say . |
| 7 | I must say you 've taken long enough to do so . ’ |
| 8 | The Chinese have given just enough support to the allies to bring themselves back into favour with the western governments , particularly America 's , that had spurned them after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 . |
| 9 | The question is whether prices and mortgage rates have fallen far enough to ensure that this position will be reached in the near future . |
| 10 | This plan is useful only for people whose incomes have risen fast enough to meet payments on the new loan and the debt on their old mortgage . |
| 11 | The truth is , I have had only enough to permit me to drown my sorrows . ’ |
| 12 | Never mind what you read and hear to the contrary ; your plants have had quite enough shock as it is without adding to it . |
| 13 | X-rays can detect only big tumours , and bronchoscopes — flexible fibre-optic cables which relay pictures from the inside of the lungs to the outside world — only see those that have spread far enough to wrinkle the lining of the lung . |
| 14 | Most of us have lived long enough to know that you ca n't say with any certainty , where you might be in the future . |