Example sentences of "[noun sg] had enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew Jennifer would be hurt at the mention of him and the poor girl had enough problems as it was without adding to them . |
| 2 | I knew the Maggot was dying to hear the senator 's business , but even the Maggot had enough delicacy to wait until we had safely delivered the senator to Nassau before asking . |
| 3 | Weighing the best part of two-and-a-half tonnes , the Mulsanne Turbo had enough puff to twist the speedo needle almost off the scale ( a true 135mph ) and drop the 0–60mph time to around 7secs . |
| 4 | But the remains of the entrée had enough atropine in it to kill a couple of horses . ’ |
| 5 | References are generally oblique : for instance in the argument that if a woman had enough education to do the job , she was probably " in a class aspiring to a higher social position " . |
| 6 | Surely the man had enough sense to take him over to the other corner , where aged Chevrolets lay wearily beside battered Valiants , motorbikes and scooters . |
| 7 | In the British Army , discipline was centred around self-discipline , and it was assumed that each man had enough self-discipline to carry out an order without being told twice . |
| 8 | Pop music had enough to concentrate on . |
| 9 | ‘ Your grandmother had enough money to buy a home if she 'd wanted to , ’ Lucenzo observed in a soft growl . |
| 10 | It was indeed a sad thing that in these days when the Church had enough enemies outside it should divide itself into hostile forces , because , he added aptly , forgetting the original subject of the quotation , a house divided against itself could not stand . |
| 11 | He said the Afghan army had enough ammunition to defeat even a regular army . |
| 12 | More commonly , the partners sold it when the driver had enough money to buy a truck of his own . |
| 13 | Perhaps they felt that the school had enough things going against them and they should be supported in doing something constructive … |
| 14 | For fifty years since the posthumous publication of Henri Pirenne 's Mahomet et Charlemagne ( 1937 ) scholars have been debating what they have labelled its ‘ thesis ’ : that the ancient rhythms of an undivided Mediterranean civilization had enough tenacity to survive Germanic invasions and settlements , and were disrupted and transformed only as a consequence of the spread of Muslim power , cutting the Mediterranean in half . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I thought about it but I decided that the family had enough to put up with without learning about me . |
| 16 | Though my Mother had enough barbiturates in her system to kill ten people , her addiction had built up sufficient tolerance to suggest the possibility of an accidental overdose . |