Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adv] [det] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The waiting outside in the wind and the snow had been too much for a majority of the newsmen who had shown up originally . |
| 2 | She thought at first that his ordeal had been too much for him and that his mind was wandering . |
| 3 | The excitement of Cynthia 's revelation had been too much for her and Cynthia now anxiously rang the bell for the nurse . |
| 4 | Even the very limited amount of competition and market liberalisation proposed in the Electricity and Gas Directives has been too much for the German ( highly inefficient ) coal-mining interests to swallow . |
| 5 | The shock had been too much for her precarious hold on sanity and she had been removed to Rainhill Asylum in a strait jacket . |
| 6 | He had been abroad , and things had been too much for his younger brother , he having been deserted by his partners . |
| 7 | The journey had been too much for her , he thought apprehensively , but when she spoke it was in a cheerful raised voice . |
| 8 | He probably expected to find that the problem had been too much for her . |
| 9 | An empty stomach and the pain of her ankle had been too much for her . |
| 10 | Louise Dunstaple , who had once been so fair , now looked like some consumptive Irish girl you might find walking the London streets ; in spite of the angry red spots on her pale brow she no longer wore the poultice of flour … the temptation had been too much for her and she had eaten it . |