Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | By the time I reappeared , Lisabeth had cheered up enough to smile weakly , having adopted the invalid-on-the-sickbed routine . |
2 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
3 | She hated excessive make-up and had applied just enough to emphasize her striking looks . |
4 | I was even planning which tank I would be moving my 43 babies ( I had carefully counted the eggs ) to when they had grown up enough to go into a larger tank . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Beddington had lived long enough to know that very few people were quite what the public considered them . |
16 | Rather to Folly 's surprise , Lisa seemed to have things well in hand by the time she had calmed down enough to return to the Rose Bowl . |
17 | After the girl had calmed down enough to operate her scanning equipment , a number of hairline fractures had been revealed and a torn muscle . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | The illusion had lasted long enough to make her accept his invitation to spend a few days away as a reward for all her hard work at the shop . |