Example sentences of "was [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the same story with the first three but the fourth told me that I would be certain to get a coffin from a firm of suppliers in Birkenhead and was kind enough to give me their telephone number . |
| 2 | ‘ He was kind enough to give me a few minutes after Evensong yesterday . ’ |
| 3 | P.S. Dr Jane was kind enough to give me a time early in the day . |
| 4 | ‘ I would really prefer to teach girls , but this school was kind enough to give me a part-time job when I wanted it , so here I am ’ . |
| 5 | He was kind enough to give me a lift home . ’ |
| 6 | I knew Flora cared no more about my opinions than about the opinions of the rather derelict Arabs , drinking Coca-Cola at the bar — probably a good deal less , in fact , since theirs would be useful copy for her — but she was kind enough to pretend that she did , drew me out and flattered me until I felt witty and successful and told outrageous stories about people we knew . |
| 7 | What a diddy — and I just lit up a roll-up in a no-smoking carriage , but the woman opposite was kind enough to point this out to me , saving me further financial embarrassment and financial loss … now I know why tourists are regarded as idiots the world over , it 's because they are . |
| 8 | A local dental surgeon , Mr. Williams , was kind enough to attend at Dr. Prior 's request and he administered the gas gratuitously . |
| 9 | ‘ Actually the Archdeacon was kind enough to fill me in on that aspect of things . |
| 10 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 11 | Miss Blagden duly took the wretched gun and it was she who was kind enough to write on delivering it : — I found your husband very well , Wilson , and as expected by you much agitated over the rumours that another concerted effort is to be made to free and unite his country which subject I may say engages the minds and hearts of his employers hardly less . |
| 12 | So I suppose I shall have to rely for my silver lining upon Carrie Schlegel of Capistrano Beach , California , who was kind enough to write to this magazine to say that I was God . |
| 13 | You know , as she had no family or friends , he was kind enough to pay for her to go to school , and found her a job here with your uncle . |
| 14 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
| 15 | My hon. Friend was kind enough to tell me in answer to a question on the third problem , asking him whether he would make the east-west A427 a trunk road , that it came under the county council 's responsibility for bypasses . |
| 16 | Our telephone company was kind enough to bill us only one Belgian franc per call : we had a special arrangements because it was so much . |
| 17 | ‘ McIniff was blackguard enough to do that but you 'd think that at least he 'd be ashamed to tell it . ’ |
| 18 | The correspondent , however , was sage enough to emphasise that the relationship was far from causal . |
| 19 | Michele spotted it when it was just about to sink and was fool enough to go in fully clothed . ’ |
| 20 | For Syl I felt no sympathy , since if he was fool enough to want me he deserved none . |
| 21 | I was fool enough to think you might want to see me . ’ |
| 22 | Together they sat on one of the deep and wide settees in the room , and , though there was room enough to spare should they wish to spread out , Leith opted to sit up close . |
| 23 | He could not deny that he had been an unfaithful husband , although he was gentleman enough to keep the names of his various inamoratas to himself . |
| 24 | He was hit on the side of the chest in 1748 but did not die until March 1751 , having contracted pleurisy four weeks previously when he was ass enough to inspect landscape gardening at Kew in icy weather . |
| 25 | This was guarantee enough to secure loans which left the government in the peacetime year of 1786 paying 55 per cent of its net expenditure in interest on the national debt , compared with a level of 45 per cent before the war . |
| 26 | The club had thirty in its youth squad in 1951 and there was competition even to get a game for the fourth team . |
| 27 | He was man enough to smile , and it made Arthur Marshall laugh , which was always a wonderful sight . |
| 28 | Many said it was bliss just to sit on the bales of straw and listen to the music . |
| 29 | For the Stock Exchange chief executive , the ignominy of having cost the City several hundred million pounds was reason enough to take the long walk . |
| 30 | ‘ He was cross enough to spit . |