Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were brought in after being taken from a village near Mostar They were originally to have been helicoptered out but that became too dangerous for the volunteer pilots . |
| 2 | On the principle question in the case , the concensus of the judges was that the authorities against the existance of the defence were irresistable , but perhaps this payed too little regard to the paralell rule for the priviledge of self-defence . |
| 3 | This proved too much for Daniel Wilkinson , who nevertheless put up a sparkling display of shots and services . |
| 4 | This proved too much for her ; she burst into tears ; I comforted her . |
| 5 | For all the hard work on his and Sir David 's part , however , this proved too harsh a deadline ; but then with Mr George 's conference ending yet again in indecision , his lordship set his sights on a further great conference scheduled to take place in Switzerland the following year . |
| 6 | This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention . |
| 7 | ‘ It all got too much for him . |
| 8 | But it all got too public . |
| 9 | Admittedly , there were times for her when it all became too much , when the intrusion and the invasion were a strain . |
| 10 | ‘ It all became too much . |
| 11 | As bus driver Mirsad Nevsetovic , a Muslim married to a Serb , expressed the apparently forlorn hope that ‘ both sides see sense ’ , it all became too much for his wife 's Serbian mother . |
| 12 | It all became too much as a woman in the crowd shouted : ‘ We love you , Di . ’ |
| 13 | It all became too much for her — the rows with Ivy in the shop and marriage to the pompous pudding , Alf . |
| 14 | They all expected too much of me . |
| 15 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 16 | It all seemed too important for that : a warning of what was inside us all as human beings and of what we must avoid at all costs . |
| 17 | They all looked too tired to be bothered with any joking . |
| 18 | WHEN wood shavings were put down on the floor in the Key Street post room it all proved too much for , left , and . |
| 19 | We all drank too much . |
| 20 | Not that that mattered too much . |
| 21 | If readers of the Figures wished successfully to grow the delectable assortment presented by Miller , they had but to turn to his Dictionary for all the practical advice gleaned over half a century 's gardening and , if that proved too expensive , then there was the Abridgement or the Kalendar . |
| 22 | I was nearly in love , I was proposed to a couple of times ; on the other hand , I once went for a year without men , without sex — both seemed too much trouble . |