Example sentences of "they [vb past] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they got too many ! |
| 2 | used to make bowls off , because they got too expensive . |
| 3 | I am certain that with no additional resource , we can do more for our researchers than provide then with yet another data archive where they can deposit the materials which they developed with inadequate support and for which they got too little recognition . |
| 4 | Formerly I had an English couple who used to come every day , that lasted seven or eight years then they got too old . |
| 5 | And there were those who could not come at all , they lived too far away . |
| 6 | The burgesses grew wealthy , charging up to seven shillings for Spanish ships after the Armada , until they became too greedy and local merchants and fishermen refused to pay . |
| 7 | At the time it was found that a major drawback in dual-purpose cattle was that they often failed to breed true : the offspring tended towards either the beef or the dairy type of the breed 's dual-purpose spectrum , partly because of breeders ' preferences but partly , it was believed , because the dual-purpose breeds were effectively hybrids : if they had begun to show too great an emphasis on dairy characteristics , extreme beef sires were introduced to draw them back to their dual-purpose role , and likewise extreme dairy sires were used when they became too beefy . |
| 8 | You 're not bad , ’ which was nonsense because all I had done was follow Harvey 's steps and fake pauses when they became too difficult to follow . |
| 9 | Many of his acquisitions had eventually bored him and had been disposed of by auction , but the most accomplished and entertaining individuals were rewarded , once they became too old or unattractive to perform their requisite duties , by unconditional liberation from the household and a generous pension . |
| 10 | So are America and the Soviet Union , to the extent that they wasted too much energy signing up local partners for the cold war instead of organising a local peace . |
| 11 | Both of the options put forward by the Democrats were rejected by Bush on the grounds that they involved too much structural reform and were contrary to the principles of the free market . |
| 12 | And when they seemed too beguiling , all she had to do was think of Victoria , and Victoria 's dress account , and Victoria riding with him , and the woman he was meeting tonight — ten to one that was Victoria too . |
| 13 | until they seemed too many to be counted . |
| 14 | They seemed too exhausted to take much in , apart from one little girl who understood very well . |
| 15 | Some were difficult because they seemed too controlled , or controlling . |
| 16 | The few areas which had escaped collectivization because they seemed too poor were now to be brought into line . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , just like that but they seemed too thick for cards and uneven — like folded papers . |
| 18 | They seemed too wretched even to stare . |
| 19 | They seemed too frightened to move . |
| 20 | Alas , they came too late to do the wounded agency , or the arts , much good . |
| 21 | Throughout the spawning the Scats paid no attention to the eggs , being gently nudged away if they came too close . |
| 22 | He did not feel so hostile to them as he did to the ravens , and merely ignored them , overflying them if they came too close but not behaving more aggressively than that . |
| 23 | Which said basically they paid too much money for water . |
| 24 | But they arrived too late . |
| 25 | They arrived too late to save Praag but did destroy part of the Chaos army 's rearguard . |
| 26 | On the one hand the British were frequently too interested in East–West military disengagement in Germany , and on the other they showed too little interest in Western European integration . |
| 27 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 28 | Talk about jumping the gun — the machines are n't even announced for another three weeks , but Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based Clearpoint Research Corp reckons that there are potential users out there that already realise they ordered too little memory for the things and want to be prepared by having add-on memory ready and waiting on site . |
| 29 | Some of them had previously experimented with fixed-term contracts but had found they imposed too much rigidity . |
| 30 | Although they battled strongly throughout the game they lost too many counts at crucial times . |