Example sentences of "have be too " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those closest to him who should have been too frightened to behave as they did include his father , but they also include his sisters , who struck out for themselves in a fashion which has him siding with his father . |
| 2 | It all happened so quickly — sometimes I think it may have been too quickly . |
| 3 | It should have been done sooner , he wrote , but the truth is it would always have been too late . |
| 4 | She 'd have been too far gone to hear . |
| 5 | Perhaps it would have been too easy : they 'd made love the first night they met , both involved with women who gave them pain . |
| 6 | Would it not have been too painful , not least having to watch another youngster take his first steps into the fatherless state ? |
| 7 | If the 1957 explanation was false , the theory runs , then the subsequent loss of face would have been too great for a correction to be issued in Gromyko 's lifetime . |
| 8 | Appearing in Ackerley 's books pages might , you feel , have been a privilege but an afternoon of Joe and Joe 's dog would have been too much . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't cross them out — that would have been too much like defacing the book , ’ he says . |
| 10 | Indeed , by the middle of that year critics were saying that the cuts imposed at the time of the IMF crisis may have been too harsh , and that fixed investment in manufacturing capacity needed to be stepped up , even though it actually rose by 8 per cent in 1978 . |
| 11 | Then again , perhaps a scaled down 5-series would have been too predictable . |
| 12 | Obviously I felt for him , I would n't have been too delighted if our positions had been reversed ; and they could so easily have been . |
| 13 | It would have been too chancy and too tiring a journey for her to have taken by the complicated network of bus connections , with its many waits , and there was her luggage . |
| 14 | Only now have I come to understand what it was my sixth sense was trying to tell me then ; in any case it would have been too late , Aunt Nessy was waiting , and bending down , I put my arms round her , and kissed her . |
| 15 | I do n't come from an evangelical background , I came from a raw environment straight into the contentions of the Big Man and you could n't have been too extreme . |
| 16 | It was as well that I was unable to visit the Aran Isles , for if they had changed since the 1930s my disappointment might have been too great to bear . |
| 17 | Well naturally he 'd want to keep a boy , and your ma 's husband would n't have been too keen to have him around . ’ |
| 18 | He said : ‘ The word from Manchester United fans was that we could do them a big favour , and we 've undoubtedly done them one , but I got the impression that our own fans would not have been too bothered if we 'd lost today . ’ |
| 19 | It added weight to the criticism that the selectors may have been too hasty in ignoring this race as the final trial . |
| 20 | One suspects that Perkins , who died in 1967 , would not have been too concerned . |
| 21 | ‘ It would have been too dangerous to continue , ’ said Mr Mackintosh . |
| 22 | We chose the pool because the Atlantic beaches would have been too rough after the race . |
| 23 | This meant that in each case a secondary modern school which would have been too small to survive was absorbed quietly and without fuss into the grammar school , which did not bother to change its name . |
| 24 | I might have been too if I was n't so new to the game , I suppose . |
| 25 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 26 | Since it was Christmas , it was worthwhile , but otherwise it would have been too cold . |
| 27 | The constable might not have minded the instant promotion but I doubt if the commissioner would have been too happy had I relegated him to the ranks ! ) |
| 28 | Unfortunately not , that would have been too clearcut , too unambiguous a crime to cast before a Scottish court . |
| 29 | That reminds me : I asked whether he 'd heard anything within a few minutes of seeing young Hamnett , hoping he 'd say a shot , of course , which really would have been too good to be true . |
| 30 | km. ) in the Arun valley south of Amberley , to about five pairs per 2,500 acres in Pevensey Levels ; this figure may have been too low , and 29 pairs ( 20 pairs per 2,500 acres ) were found in 1976 . |