Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adj] [adv] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he I should of thought it were big enough for them but he said |
| 2 | I do n't think it was strong enough for anything like that . |
| 3 | Eva had to cover a chair in stapled-together plastic bags before it was hygienic enough for his arse . |
| 4 | book , she wrote a list out what she wanted , she used to hand it , I remember , I 'd forgotten all about this , let's just say we were at the Co-Op , she 'd hand it in at the counter so the , the groceries counter all , and she 'd written it all out , and when it came back it was , was five minutes , it was all together for you , there it was , it was built up on the counter , and each time the amount was written at the side so |
| 5 | The football crowd and estate dwellers of the big cities did n't five a monkeys what they were wearing in Harlem or anywhere else ; if it looked good in the Anfield Road End , the Scoreboard Paddock or the Clock End , it was good enough for them . |
| 6 | It was good enough for them in the old days , and it will be good enough for them again , especially with THE woman out of the way . |
| 7 | The iambic was Pope 's mainstay and it was good enough for her . |
| 8 | Er I was at Portugal , we had fancied going to America but er my husband 's young brother and his wife want to come with us this year and they 've got two young kids so they felt it was far enough for them . |
| 9 | On the morning of November 18th , when Wilson stood in the street to wave goodbye to the Brownings , it was hot enough for her to want to move into the shade as soon as they had gone . |
| 10 | Elsie joined me on the river bank and asked if it was hot enough for me . |
| 11 | I found the sack very comfortable considering the simplicity of the back system and was pleased to find that it was long enough for me to use the waist belt properly . |
| 12 | It was long enough for him to persuade the Royal College of Music that his talent was worth taking seriously . |
| 13 | First , and most simply , though it was not at all uncommon for administrators to feel exasperated by Masai obduracy , or disapproving of certain aspects of the Masai way of life ( such as collective fornication throughout the years of early manhood ) , it was rare indeed for one in close contact with them to conceive a personal dislike for them . |
| 14 | I was able to climb to about 1,200′ at which height I felt it was safe enough for me to control any sudden change of attitude when I disengaged the auto pilot . |
| 15 | Narrow and hard it might be , but it was large enough for him , and blissfully welcome . |
| 16 | It was large enough for him to have a grand study with five windows ; yet small enough for him to discourage visitors without obvious discourtesy . |
| 17 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |