Example sentences of "had gone too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 2 | At Banque Indosuez , one of the French underwriters of the project , Jean-Michel Plou , said the tunnel had gone too far to fail . |
| 3 | ‘ Where are you going , Rose ? ’ he asked in a tone that told her that he knew he had gone too far but she continued on her way . |
| 4 | He suggested that it had gone too far and should be pulled down . |
| 5 | ( a beating ) Though my whole inside felt as if clutched in an icy grip , I had gone too far to retreat . |
| 6 | Mrs Carson did not reply at once and Ruth wondered if she had gone too far and annoyed her mistress . |
| 7 | The Commissioner had gone too far and had given a ruling that would have had the effect of preventing the Crown from leading evidence which , as a matter of law , was admissible . |
| 8 | According to some critics , the ‘ Heshang ’ authors had gone too far and there were signs that a backlash might be imminent . |
| 9 | We then realized that we had gone too far and lacked the critical mass to support the heavy selling effort involved , so we bought another company to fill out the range again . |
| 10 | The purge within Japanese defence personnel had gone too far and the same applied to the purge of politicians . |
| 11 | The rowing boat near the weir — only this time they had gone too far and Uncle Albert was not strong enough to row them back to safety ; the study at Uncle Albert 's house looking warm and friendly and inviting ; the professor beetle shouting rude instructions at some little beetles that had got into difficulty ; again a glimpse of her uncle 's study ; then a turnstile — one of those that only turn one way , so once you have passed through it you ca n't get back ; playful light beams now shrieking with fear as they hurtle past the window to their destruction ; walking up the down-escalator and not being able to get anywhere ; yet another brief snatch of the study … |
| 12 | That was one of the reasons she loved him , but she could n't go on doing it indefinitely — swearing that this time he had gone too far and it was the end and then having to console him . |
| 13 | Apprehension dried Polly 's throat and she could feel her cheeks burning , but she had gone too far to stop now . |
| 14 | There was a sense among them , even the innocent ones , of naughty children who had gone too far and had been abandoned by their parents . |