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 .
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