Example sentences of "be enough [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be enough to make him lose interest but , if he persists , discourage him briefly and matter-of-factly , explaining that such words show bad manners and offend some people , who will like him less if he insists on using them . |
| 2 | It is enough that we see these things and sit with her while she drinks manzanilla or brandy to wash the sight away ( though we are never told why she drinks ) — these things are enough to make us participate in what we surmise she must be feeling . |
| 3 | But six months ago none of this would have been enough to make him invite her company for longer than was politely necessary . |
| 4 | The words were enough to make him explode with anger , and , turning swiftly to grip her shoulders , he shook her with force , glaring down into her face . |
| 5 | It 's enough to make me believe in fate . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He 's enough to make anyone feel a little insecure . ’ |
| 7 | The house , the grounds , the cars , the beautiful children , the expensive clothes , the dashing husband — it 's enough to make you spit … but read on . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's enough to make you want to top yourself when you get to seventy . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's enough to make you cut your throat . |
| 10 | Course that Avant Garde stuff 's enough to make you spew |
| 11 | It 's enough to make you drive all the way to south-west France and strew some beetroot on the lanes . |
| 12 | I do n't expect you to get everything right , but to describe the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception as coming from a ‘ literal translation ’ of a controversial biblical passage ’ is enough to make me chuckle — especially in a piece headed ‘ Fundamentalism — The |
| 13 | This is enough to make me feel like I own the world . |
| 14 | I find that wilfulness in itself is enough to make me turn away from something . |
| 15 | The opposite palazzo is private , but the view to the small arcaded courtyard , especially if it is sunlit , is enough to make you yearn to have spent time in Renaissance Milan . |
| 16 | Finally , one look at the South Africans ' itinerary for the next six months — tests against Romania , Italy , then New Zealand , Australia , France and England — is enough to make you break out in a cold sweat . |
| 17 | It is enough to make you smell a rat and be damned for your cynicism . |
| 18 | And then you get lots of other unwelcome knocks on the door — one man who says he 's looking for number 11 , another who says he 's a taxi-driver who 's come to the wrong house — and he probably is but his timing is enough to make you rush about panicking and locking the place up like Fort Knox . |
| 19 | The stench of rotting , wounded flesh is enough to make you vomit . |
| 20 | Laziness is enough to make anyone feel ill . ’ |
| 21 | Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop , which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious . |
| 22 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |
| 23 | It was enough to make him forget women entirely . |
| 24 | This was enough to make me forget the abstract art of 1912–13 ! ’ |
| 25 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 26 | Once he 'd gone , I was approached by a woman who started rubbing my stomach and putting her hand down my trousers , which I must say was enough to make me say yes immediately . |
| 27 | Later , the odour alone was enough to make them release large amounts of histamine . |
| 28 | Jesus … it was enough to make anyone spit blood ! |
| 29 | It was n't a fortune but was enough to help me buy my first flat and first TV . |