Example sentences of "[pron] enough [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It will tell them enough to alert them if they 're working for the British Government . ’ |
| 2 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
| 3 | If we like them enough to invest , we will either cut our spending ( bad for the high street and the recovery ) or switch savings from other institutions ( notably the building societies ) putting pressure on them to match those terms . |
| 4 | But there 's a moral argument that at some point you 're not paying them enough to live on . |
| 5 | This is where we need to listen to what they 're asking and what they need , and give them enough to satisfy them . |
| 6 | However , I have used them enough to observe that the properly selected remedy works deeply , quickly , smoothly , and without initial aggravation . |
| 7 | Now that I 'm feeling a bit calmer , I can see that it was amazingly presumptuous of me even to imagine that Madeleine might love me enough to sacrifice all the luxuries she 's used to , just to be with me ! |
| 8 | But there was nothing around that moved me enough to go out and change things . |
| 9 | I even tried laying trails of cheese that led to my feet , which she scoffed up , but she did n't trust me enough to take the cheese from my hand . |
| 10 | They trusted me enough to allow me into their ranks , but when I saw what they were planning I knew that the only answer was to destroy them , expose them . |
| 11 | And that annoyed me enough to drive me to my cabin , to clean myself up and choose fresh clothing . |
| 12 | You said then that I 'd never cope , but the farmers liked me enough to ask me to call again . ’ |
| 13 | I did enjoy our cup of tea together , and thank you for trusting me enough to tell me about your husband 's alcoholism . |
| 14 | Do you love me enough to marry me ? ’ |
| 15 | Yes , eventually I did put it down to your job , worried about Steve being so long away and anxious to tie up the contract , but there was a worse fear — that you just did n't love me enough to want to stay with me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Ca n't you trust me enough to keep it between just the two of us ? ’ |
| 17 | However , I feel sure she values her friendship with me enough to play it our way . |
| 18 | We are unable to love ourselves enough to allow for weakness . |
| 19 | The dragonrider forgot himself enough to nod , and came within a quarter-inch of cutting his own throat . |
| 20 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 21 | Only on his way home at lunchtime did he at last rouse himself enough to make a detour , and stop by at his brother 's apartment and invite Franco to come home with him for lunch . |
| 22 | This is Death 's Head Hole , the name itself enough to cause a shudder . |
| 23 | The suggestion that pre-exposure to a stimulus establishes an exact representation of it , for instance , is not in itself enough to explain latent inhibition ; indeed it seems capable of predicting quite the wrong result . |
| 24 | This more dynamic model of natural relationships would become an integral part of Darwin 's thinking , but it was not by itself enough to convert him to evolutionism . |
| 25 | No one expected the pastoral Masai to go out to work en masse as agricultural labourers for the Europeans , and so their officers were spared the necessity of acting as labour recruiters — in itself enough to lighten the heart of any administrative officer in Kenya . |
| 26 | Had n't she enough to think about ? |
| 27 | Give them a hug , and say ‘ I love you enough to set you free . |
| 28 | My mason shall provide you with materials , and if you choose to work under him and learn from him , he shall find you enough to do . |
| 29 | Let's hope he or she cares about you enough to say , ‘ You know you should have called me earlier-you must have been holding this in for days ! ’ |
| 30 | I made one in trusting you enough to open up my heart to you about my ex-fiancé . |