Example sentences of "enough [prep] be [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Borg and Lloyd , ghosts from the ‘ Love Match ’ of long ago , were reported as having lost to a pair of teenagers young enough to be their sons . |
| 2 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |
| 3 | ‘ Madam ’ : a barefoot young woman with a paintbrush in her hand , dressed in shorts and flimsy tee-shirt , young enough to be her daughter . |
| 4 | She could almost hear the tick of its works , that and the beat of her heart ; for , if Rab was young enough to be her son , then her husband was old enough to be her father . |
| 5 | He looked young enough to be her son . |
| 6 | ‘ BUT HE IS OLD ENOUGH TO BE HER GRANDAD ’ |
| 7 | He 's old enough to be her grandfather . |
| 8 | Here was this young creature , beautiful and restless , married to a man almost old enough to be her grandfather , and apparently setting out to make the very best of it , too , with no signs of regret or self-pity ; but the prospect of having a girl of her own age in the house , even for a few days , might well matter to her a great deal more than the extension and acceptance of a mere conventional politeness . |
| 9 | That man , who was old enough to be her father , had ‘ completely destroyed her trust , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ No woman ’ , she had written , ‘ genuinely fancies a man old enough to be her father . |
| 11 | ‘ But you became greedy , Barney , ’ she said , ‘ you became so greedy you were willing to sell your own daughter like a beast at the fair , forcing her to marry a lecherous oul wretch that 's old enough to be her father . |
| 12 | She could almost hear the tick of its works , that and the beat of her heart ; for , if Rab was young enough to be her son , then her husband was old enough to be her father . |
| 13 | He was old enough to be her father , and she convinced herself that she was suffering from too much imagination . |
| 14 | For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own . |
| 15 | Maybe she wished it was still the young man who shared her bed instead of a man who-was almost old enough to be her father . |
| 16 | Not only was her employer old enough to be her father , but he was a married man , and even if he were not , such a relationship would be totally foreign to her upbringing , if not her very nature . |
| 17 | ‘ Monsieur Verveine must be old enough to be her father ! |
| 18 | Although , she thought with uncharitable spitefulness , he was old enough to be her father . |
| 19 | She was scandalised by the very idea , especially since the MD was a delightfully avuncular man , certainly old enough to be her father . |
| 20 | He was old enough to be her father ! |
| 21 | Why , I 'm old enough to be your grandmother ! |
| 22 | But she was a cheery old sort , if a shade old-fashioned ( ‘ I am old enough to be your mother , Prime Minister' had gone down rather well ) , and when she finally shuddered to a halt , having gone through at least two red lights , she was rewarded with much applause . |
| 23 | You sound as though you feel as though there is something morally wrong in loving a woman who is old enough to be your mother . |
| 24 | You know what I am , you know I 'm old enough to be your father , I 'm not reliable at all . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm old enough to be your father . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I am old enough to be your father , ’ I said to myself as much as to her . |
| 27 | Having a boyfriend or husband who is young enough to be your son can still raise a few eyebrows and set tongues wagging but , as these couples prove , love conquers all — even a 30-year age gap |
| 28 | The girls were shocked because although public relations consultant Margot is as good-looking as her toyboy lover , at 39 she is old enough to be his mum . |
| 29 | Colin Bastafield , 29 , also fell in love with a woman old enough to be his mum — his 48-year-old mother-in-law , Dawn Stafford . |
| 30 | After all , the situation bulges with seedy potential : a man about to have sex with a girl young enough to be his daughter is suddenly forced to pose as her father . |