Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] clever enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel would pretend to patronise me , and I would pretend I was n't clever enough to notice ; and he would be swankier than he really was , and I would be more boring ; but we knew what we were doing and we were friends . |
| 2 | For a reason not quite clear to her , Erika felt embarrassed , as if there were an irony in Karl 's words , especially the reference to Albania , which she felt she was not clever enough to understand . |
| 3 | Johnson may be a forlorn , pathetic creature who was never clever enough to emulate more sophisticated cheats who can mask the effects that steroids have on the human system . |
| 4 | For he was n't clever enough to hide them , exactly , he stumbled through you see and and er of course they they were exposed you see , for all to see . |
| 5 | He was n't clever enough to have enemies . ’ |