Example sentences of "have enough [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burma is fortunate in that she has enough for her own needs , though she was only just able to ensure this during the last harvest . |
| 2 | The alternatives would seem to be handing General Noriega to the US forces to face trial on drug-trafficking charges , which the Vatican has said it will not do , or giving him up to the new Panamanian Government , which has already declared it ‘ has enough on him to put Noriega away for life ’ . |
| 3 | but Terry has enough on his plate without having to separate them into maths and this that and the other and photocopy bits and pieces ! |
| 4 | Apart from which , she has enough on her plate at the moment . |
| 5 | The man has enough in his body as it is . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've had enough with them others , ’ he protested . |
| 8 | ‘ People in the business have had enough with the ‘ I wo n't get out of bed for less than £10,000 ’ attitude . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've had enough with that lot downstairs , going on at me as if I 'm something less than bacteria ! ’ |
| 10 | She thought that perhaps he had had enough by now . |
| 11 | ‘ I should n't think so ; Jennifer will have had enough by now . ’ |
| 12 | Similarly , checks are made to see you have enough in the current account to meet expenditure . |
| 13 | She also had enough at Usher to occupy her mind without fretting about future possibilities . |
| 14 | I was between jobs , and I actually had enough to tide me over while I had a sabbatical . |
| 15 | Germany was prostrate ; France had ceased to be Britain 's inveterate enemy ; and the Soviet Union had enough on its hands rebuilding Mother Russia . |
| 16 | Moreover , the Germans had no desire to be saddled with more of BAOR 's sector of the front : they had enough on their hands under-pinning the Dutch and Belgian corps , whose military worth they had good reasons to doubt in the late 1950s . |
| 17 | The team had enough on its mind as it was . |
| 18 | She had enough on her hands trying to bring up the boys , and the simplest expedient would be to get the little girl down to Frome , where her deceased husband 's sister and brother-in-law , William and Sarah Chinnock , could provide her with a decent upbringing . |
| 19 | He had enough on his mind . |
| 20 | She had enough on her plate . |
| 21 | For starters , she had enough on her plate with Jonathan and her disillusionment with him , and , for a second thing , she was as uninterested in him as he was in her . |
| 22 | It was not only because he wanted no extra work that the husband had tried to persuade his wife she had enough on her plate without insisting on a birthday party for their four-year-old . |
| 23 | The essential point was that , in those major companies with a active internal audit function , it already had enough on its plate . |
| 24 | For her part Margaret Thatcher , the UK Prime Minister , told the UK House of Commons on April 19 after publication of the Kohl-Mitterrand letter that the EC had enough on its plate without getting involved in such " esoteric things " . |
| 25 | But he decided they probably had enough on their minds for the moment ; and swiftly tossing back the Glenlivet , he left them , making his way thoughtfully to the front entrance , and wondering something else : wondering whether any announcement of Kemp 's death — Kemp 's murder — would have come as too much of a surprise to one of the four people who still sat round their table in the Chapters Bar . |
| 26 | Travis had enough on his plate just now without being asked to go against his promise to Rosemary to reveal nothing about her . |
| 27 | Right now she had enough on her plate with the club and the house — she simply did n't have time to contend with him too . |
| 28 | After another fortnight you had enough for twelve or sixteen . |
| 29 | He had enough for his day-to-day needs , of course , but he would be hard-pressed to see himself through another month if he was to live in the style befitting a gentleman . |
| 30 | Ignoring the suddenly bright gleam in his eyes , she bent and grabbed the hem of her shift , tearing the flimsy material easily until she had enough for a bandage . |