Example sentences of "have [verb] enough [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giger was asked to produce designs not only for the full-grown monster , especially its head , but also for the two earlier stages , the ‘ face-hugger ’ ( the piece that comes out of the egg to attach itself to an animal/human and force an embryo down their throat ) and the ‘ chest-burster ’ ( the small creature that has grown enough within the host to burst out to an independent existence , killing the host in the process ) . |
| 2 | The point I was making was that Miller , fictional character or not , has suffered enough without being visited by an authorial malevolence . |
| 3 | MICHAEL Watson has recovered enough from brain surgery to tell conqueror Chris Eubank : ‘ It was my own fault . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Wood has learned enough over the years about badgers to be able to get in as close as just a foot or two . |
| 5 | She 'd seen enough from the taxi to tell that every house , cottage , shop and inn was simply full of character , each different but still in the traditional Cotswold style she was beginning to recognise . |
| 6 | I 'd suffered enough for my mistake . |
| 7 | He 'd sought her out in her sanctuary , confirmed her belief with the tender , arousing touch of the perfect lover , and she 'd learned enough from him to return his caresses with a woman 's intimate knowledge of how to pleasure the body of the man she loved . |
| 8 | ‘ We must hope before you go to Oxford mother will have relented enough at any rate to make writing to you possible . ’ |
| 9 | He lived in 1935 ( when I last saw him ) in the utmost simplicity , although if he had been a little more conciliatory he could always have earned enough for his comfort — and his wife 's ; but he never valued anything that money could buy as he valued the integrity of his sharp-shooting mind . |
| 10 | If the published rates were basically those applicable to the Home Counties and tended to decline proportionately to the distance from the metropolis , many labourers and servants in the provinces may not have earned enough to be assessed . |
| 11 | In recent years he played a number of Shakespearean roles on stage , having earned enough from comedy to become a serious actor . |
| 12 | A bigger worry is that the plan may not have done enough in three areas : open years , paying for the latest losses and litigation . |
| 13 | The creditor may have done enough by superintending himself the execution of the document and by attempting to assure himself by means of questions or explanation that she knows to what she is committing herself . |
| 14 | ‘ In the old days they 'd have thumped enough into him to get him through his exam . |
| 15 | It is also a real lesson in how to avoid the obvious without being freakish , how to start with the stimulus of a hot vegetable dish , how to vary the eternal purée of potatoes with your meat ( lacking chestnut flour we could try instead a purée of lentils or split peas ) , how to follow it with a fresh , bright , unexpected salad ( that excellent mixture of corn salad and beetroot — how often does one meet with it nowadays ? ) and since by that time most people would have had enough without embarking on cheese , de Pomiane is brave enough to leave it out . |
| 16 | ‘ I should n't think so ; Jennifer will have had enough by now . ’ |
| 17 | His wife must have understood enough to be jealous of the girl . |
| 18 | He seems to have known enough about ordinary medicine — and perhaps still have had the contacts within the profession — to make sure that I got my inoculations and injections at the correct times in my life , despite my official non-existence as far as the National Health Service is concerned . |
| 19 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |
| 20 | Then , thinking that he had heard enough about their future plans , she ran into the drawing-room and lit all the candles on the Christmas tree . |
| 21 | She had heard enough from the Julians to recognise in the disrepair something of the troubles of the Dersinghams . |
| 22 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |
| 23 | At first they continued to rail against the regime , but Simpson 's ardour had cooled enough by July for the council to order his release , on condition that he did not come within ten miles of London . |
| 24 | Still , I guess we 've encroached enough on your weekend , and a girl like you is bound to be in demand , ’ he twinkled . |
| 25 | We wo n't be getting married until we 've saved enough for our deposit . |
| 26 | We 'll leave it at that and we 'll pick it up again next time because we 've done enough on that . |
| 27 | Ma had suffered enough over Daisy , she did n't deserve all this unhappiness . |
| 28 | The jury that awarded her £600,000 may also have thought she had suffered enough in her life , he said . |
| 29 | ‘ I think she had done enough at the end and it was beginning to hurt , ’ Elsworth said . |
| 30 | She straightened her shoulders , perhaps she had done enough for today , mam would be getting restless wanting a bit of attention after her long day spent mostly alone . |