Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] enough [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After what has happened I do not think this girl will be able easily to adjust to a normal teenage existence for some time and I think any order forbidding her to see this man again would not only be unrealistic , but would place an intolerable burden on a young girl who , it seems to me , has had quite enough strain already . |
| 2 | The RSPCA hopes it has acted quickly enough to prevent the abuse of this new type of farm animal . |
| 3 | None of Mao 's or Mr Deng 's heirs has survived long enough to assume fully their designated role as successor . |
| 4 | I wish he 'd lived long enough to meet you . ’ |
| 5 | Without this productivity increase exports could not have expanded fast enough to balance the additional imports required to sustain the 1955–61 expansion . |
| 6 | Indeed , if the results in London had been repeated throughout the country , Labour would not have done well enough to gain an overall majority in a putative general election . |
| 7 | Senescence in industrialized human societies has become so apparent because of the removal of most extrinsic causes of death and lowered fertility ; in the circumstances in which the life history evolved , these would have predominated , and few individuals would have lived long enough to show evidence of ageing . |
| 8 | Having waited long enough to see if they were needed , the two girls went up to Moran and kissed him on the lips as they did every night . |
| 9 | May the author once again intrude upon whatever mood his narrative might have established long enough to report on current events ? ’ |
| 10 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 11 | She hated excessive make-up and had applied just enough to emphasize her striking looks . |
| 12 | However , the Ombudsman found that the UK and Gibraltar funds were closely linked and that , if the Department had moved swiftly enough to revoke the UK licence , the Gibraltar fund could not have continued to exist . |
| 13 | Although no clear winner emerged from the debate , most commentators believed that Clinton had performed well enough to consolidate his position as the leading contender . |
| 14 | ‘ I guess I 've had long enough to accept it . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've had quite enough to drink , ’ she said , ‘ without you rotating like a top all night . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
| 18 | Luckily for them they had been fed and wormed regularly but no one had got near enough to handle them or consequently to put a halter on them . |
| 19 | In a while we had drawn close enough to sight the planet itself — a slowly enlarging spot of brightness on the ceptor screens — by which time Posi had contacted the spaceport . |
| 20 | The book was , apparently , the kind of tale for which all young people had been waiting and its heavy sales in the United States had amazed him ; the first hardcover edition had sold fast enough to surprise even his capable publisher . |
| 21 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 22 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Even so , she had lingered long enough to watch a tanker ploughing a parallel course , though in the opposite direction , probably bound for the big oil refinery . |
| 25 | I 've wasted quite enough time this morning already . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've taken long enough to do a simple errand , I must say . |
| 27 | I must say you 've taken long enough to do so . ’ |
| 28 | If he had lived long enough to see Henry crowned king at Westminster he would have been able to carry out his plan of leaving Anjou to his second son Geoffrey . |
| 29 | Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them . |
| 30 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |