Example sentences of "he was [adj] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | He was clever enough to realise that he was defending the indefensible . |
2 | But he was honest enough to say that he was ‘ fascinated ’ by it too ; as he was by all forms of physical violence . |
3 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
4 | Acting was unsatisfying ; he was clear-headed enough to recognise that he was not particularly talented , and he was permanently detached from the narcissism of the self-styled Glamour Capital of the World . |
5 | He had never been in a wood in his life ; but he was sharp enough to know that he might hide in a bush , or swarm up a tree … ‘ . ) |
6 | He was intelligent enough to realize that his father would never allow him much freedom in the business and so he started his own training centre at Heald Grove , Rusholme . |
7 | He was intelligent enough to understand that his search for Elsie was , in part , an escape from his own family . |
8 | He was shrewd enough to appreciate that here was someone who needed to be coaxed , not coerced . |
9 | He was shrewd enough to realize that western-style government could not easily be grafted on to a chiefly structure profoundly resistant to rapid and uneven modernization . |
10 | He was shrewd enough to know that to be too greedy with Jared Tunstall might lose him everything . |
11 | But as he was at first without a seat in Parliament and in any event left almost immediately for extended duty in the United States , he was unable either to galvanize or to discharge any of the traditional functions of his office . |
12 | He was wily enough to recognise that he did need his stepson ; more than David himself would ever know ; or at least needed him until his own son could be found and persuaded home . |
13 | He was perceptive enough to know that she was suffering from some sort of emotional wound that had nothing to do with him . |
14 | Surely he was bright enough to realise that her deliberate snub meant that she did n't want to see him again ? |
15 | He wished he was big enough to forget that she was a fat young woman with nothing about her but her voice . |
16 | By the beginning of August Ricky 's arm was so much better that he was able gently to stick and ball . |
17 | He was astute enough to see that in some ways they shared the same experiences . |
18 | For he was realistic enough to recognize that even if the Greek distinction between the ‘ pure ’ and the ‘ useful ’ was ultimately illusory , still the kind of class-division to which it had given rise was deeply engrained . |
19 | He was top-roped out to report that the difficulties were considerable . |
20 | Peach , who often sat on the chestnut leaf table , marking it no more than if he had been a fluffy cushion or a nightdress-case cat , watched gravely from the basket in which he was wise enough to sit when at home on Sundays . |