Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had suffered too much at each other 's hands to be able to communicate now . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | Perhaps they had liberated too many places like Fontanellato . |
| 4 | Other O'Rourke castles had been demolished to prevent the English taking them over , for they had stood too close to the Elizabethan English garrison at Sligo Town . |
| 5 | He had seen it hundreds of times on the faces of people who fancied that they had said too much to him , opened their hearts too wide . |
| 6 | In addition the head office buildings in Liverpool had not been purpose built to suit the needs of the company and they had become too small . |
| 7 | In the traditional hunting communities , those who were a burden — because they had become too old to hunt or to follow the family as it trekked to a new hunting ground — took themselves off to an ice-floe or an isolated rock and waited for death . |
| 8 | The trouble with all these guys is that they had become too aware of their public image after Saddam Hussein 's little escapade into Kuwait and the atrocious acts his troops had performed . |
| 9 | They had found too much to discuss for the last train to Swindon to remain a realistic option and Harry had gladly accepted the offer of overnight hospitality . |
| 10 | The Liberal Democrats complained that too many schools have outside lavatories ; that the Tories were profligate in setting up a chair of maritime history at a local university ; and that they had spent too much on a ceremonial mace . |
| 11 | Perhaps they had taken too long to get together . |
| 12 | After complaining they had focused too much on the warring Wales ' angle , the official was challenged : ‘ Surely you can not say that this is a happy marriage ? ’ |
| 13 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |