Example sentences of "had [vb pp] too [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had fallen too slowly to break but the wine had flowed out and made a dark stain like blood on the white candlewick . |
| 2 | The RPC had been successful in getting its policy adopted by the ILP Conference but had become too closely associated with the Communists to receive continued support from the ILP . |
| 3 | But as minister of finance under Zahedi he had become too well known for negotiating the new agreement with the oil companies , and so the Shah had exiled him to the Washington embassy . |
| 4 | She had spent too long getting dressed , changing again and again , because her thighs looked bigger in every pair of trousers that she put on . |
| 5 | Lerroux , believing that the pendulum had swung too far left in 1931–3 , was now hoping to draw irreversibly into the Republican fold the conservative forces largely represented by the CEDA . |
| 6 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 7 | Scarlet had been willing to admit the truth of her words but had ceased too soon to concentrate , her mind already elsewhere as she wondered whether , if she could express herself differently and more coherently , her therapist might not have another , and a clearer , image of her . |