Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] too [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He 'd had it too easy , Jack .
2 But perhaps he 'd left it too late .
3 ‘ You lost more in the war than we did , ’ Maxim said , and instantly felt he 'd pitched it too strong .
4 But by keeping him secret she had given him too much power .
5 But er there was a time , they got so If you had carried it too green , erm you er it could catch fire .
6 The officers had examined the window in Zambia 's showercub but had considered it too small for hir to escape through , the wall outside too sheer .
7 After about ten minutes of deliberation , Fabia could plainly see that there was only one place to start , and that was to put through a call to Lubor in the hope that Ven had phoned him too last night .
8 If the School 's size had made it too small to be a " full comprehensive unit " , it also caused problems in that a two-form entry of 60 boys meant that some Sixth Form courses could not be economically viable .
9 He had thought her too childish , too unspoiled .
10 It 's nice to be a man ‘ doing ’ the letters pages ; that stroppy strumpet Whiplash had had it too good for too long , but how the two-headed blue-worm of Gulonkerb turns , eh ?
11 As soon as Fosdyke had taken the pictures , she felt that she had shown him too much of her private life and put out her hand to receive them back .
12 It was as if they had found it too difficult to bridge the gap between simple experimental systems and the complexity of nature — as if the reductionism of the experimental method lost the holist qualities of the integrated complex whole that these distinguished ecologists saw in natural vegetation .
13 It had caused her too much pain .
14 Round in 67 , he was irritated only by the fact that he had left it too late to play a postal part in the election .
15 But they had left it too late .
16 He could do nothing to persuade them to join him and they had left it too late .
17 This year he was not doing so , claiming that he had left it too late to make arrangements .
18 Then he hesitated because he had left it too late and he was concerned that Tom would walk in through the door again at any minute .
19 Left under-equipped by the Martini , it had taken him too long to realise that copper vats were not now to be had ; that all the pottery stores had somehow been requisitioned ; that skilled men had been seduced away to serve elsewhere .
20 But they had kept her too long and she had n't wanted to appear rude because they were nice people , and now she was very , very late .
  Next page