Example sentences of "just [verb] enough " in BNC.

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1 Once more , you want to aim with your research not just to acquire enough facts spread over your pages to give a feeling of the times , but to acquire so many that you have enough and to spare and can choose among your store for the one that does more than merely give a notion of the time you are writing about .
2 He does n't want a running file , he just needs enough detail to know who 's running things , who 's in charge of it , with phone numbers so we can pass people on to the correct person , okay .
3 His wife April just scrapes enough money together to make the hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week
4 Yes , you 're always wary of erm people like that you know , their reputation goes before them , and erm you do n't really see the ball till late , he just flicked it down , I just done enough to get down and erm you know , get my right hand to it and like , Steve Foster was following up well and that and you know , that 's the things that we 've got the run with us now .
5 and er hopefully if we can only just bring enough fish each and every time erm we 'll even get it higher .
6 I 've just got enough for one , er one car .
7 But you , you 're right that if we stick to somewhere between six hundred and seven hundred as , as a erm even a basic kind of subsistence I E you 've just got enough in just , you , you 're just not using enough food to get yourself up to two hundred , two thousand calories a day at that rate you were still being taxed on , a at a rate of almost twenty percent of your , of your income .
8 ‘ Do n't lie , you 've just had enough of Dr Kildare . ’
9 People have just had enough being thrown from pillar to post . ’
10 Well my , my , my , well mine 's just had enough
11 I 'd just had enough of them so I was gon na do them when we got the shafts , like then I see what you do .
12 erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads .
13 We were just getting enough money in to do just enough in the church .
14 As many Esso as possible by 14th October please , as we could just have enough to get a colour television for the Reunion raffle !
15 It 's just doing enough to keep him alive .
16 I had brought my bag with me and I left it in Armstrong along with my wallet , spare cash and watch , just taking enough to pay for a ticket and a towel .
17 We 've had a magazine since we came over but I do n't think they just had enough to put in it and
18 So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into .
19 So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into .
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