Example sentences of "it be [adj] enough for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's good enough for my mates , why should n't it be good enough for me ? ’ |
| 2 | he I should of thought it were big enough for them but he said |
| 3 | ‘ If it was good enough for the Apostle Paul/Disraeli it 's good enough for me ’ at one end . |
| 4 | I thought , ‘ If that 's good enough for Shakespeare , it 's good enough for me ’ , and so King Rat starts , ‘ I 'm going to get that bloody bastard if it 's the last thing I do in my life . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If it was good enough for Marco Polo , it 's good enough for me . ’ |
| 6 | It 's good enough for me ! |
| 7 | I thought , ‘ Well , if it 's good enough for him , it 's OK for me . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Here , Charlotte , give this boy some meat that the dog left — if he thinks it 's good enough for him . ’ |
| 9 | If it 's good enough for CB , it 's good enough for us ! |
| 10 | And i from a technical point of view I would support my case by saying that if OPCAS use it , it 's good enough for us if it 's good enough for OPCAS . |
| 11 | It 's bad enough for me , imagine living abroad . |
| 12 | It 's hard enough for him to accept Angy 's shabby treatment of Rick , her lies about the ring and her deceit in letting him think she was carrying another man 's child . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's hard enough for me to walk through this snow ’ , he said . |
| 14 | The car is travelling at about 100 mph on the straights and braking hard before corners ; but it is stable enough for me to make notes and so quiet in the leather and teak-lined cabin that we can easily hear each other through out helmets . |
| 15 | The story goes that when the House of Commons was discussing this issue , a leading politician was heard to exclaim : ‘ If the Book of Common prayer was good enough for St Paul , it is good enough for me ! ‘ |
| 16 | That decision was passed unanimously and if it is good enough for us it should be good enough for the Tories . |
| 17 | ‘ It is close enough for me to get on . ’ |
| 18 | It is simple enough for him to show that a boxing match takes place within a general totality of ‘ boxing ’ , which is itself only ever present in any individual incarnation , for as a game each match is both an individual bout and something conducted according to general rules and a specific social tradition . |
| 19 | It is natural enough for them to want to acquire knowledge from their elders . |
| 20 | ‘ It is hard enough for me to run my practice here , seeing that I am that strange animal , a gentleman . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The iambic was Pope 's mainstay and it was good enough for her . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Elsie joined me on the river bank and asked if it was hot enough for me . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was long enough for him to persuade the Royal College of Music that his talent was worth taking seriously . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Narrow and hard it might be , but it was large enough for him , and blissfully welcome . |