Example sentences of "had [vb pp] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One other respect in which Pascal is a modem thinker is in his view , which he shared with the Jansenists , that language had proven too strong for mystery , so that theology had become merely a branch of rhetoric . |
| 2 | In Russia imperialism had developed alongside a semi-feudal agrarian structure and the bourgeoisie had proven too feeble to overthrow the absolute monarchy . |
| 3 | If he felt , sometimes , that he had heard too little of that interview of Primaflora 's , and that there was something of desperation now in her love-making , he did n't pursue it for once ; and even the matter of Katelina remained only as an anxiety held well in check . |
| 4 | There was nothing about the arrest of Theo Sykes but that might be because the news had broken too late . |
| 5 | Although they had checked twice before booking that there would be no smokers on their coach , the firm , Land Travel , had received too few bookings for the special trip and had consolidated the bookings with another coach party where most of the passengers were heavy smokers . |
| 6 | Already he had given too much away . |
| 7 | He liked the Shah personally , but , as he later acknowledged , he had been so intent on promoting British exports to Iran that he had given too little weight to many of the country 's problems . |
| 8 | The Committee refuted suggestions that the British National Front had deliberately provoked the disorder , but indicated that large numbers of spectators had consumed too much alcohol . |
| 9 | She had expected too much of Philippa . |
| 10 | Perhaps he had expected too much of him ? |
| 11 | Some said it was because we had harvested too many beans , but it was because our union was getting stronger . |
| 12 | It had looked too easy at first , but the goals would n't come , and in the end the match finished one goal apiece ; our reporter at the game , Nick Harris . |
| 13 | Polly felt her stomach nerves flutter uneasily , but she had come too far and put up with too much to back down now . |
| 14 | Sadly for Britain , sadly for industrial peace on Merseyside , the change-of-heart had come too late . |
| 15 | At last in 1854 Forbes was duly appointed to the Edinburgh chair , but he died a few months later at the age of only thirty-nine ; there was a general feeling that he had worn himself out with drudgery , and that success had come too late . |
| 16 | It had come too late to be effective . |
| 17 | She flung it at him over her shoulder in the hallway before walking into the lounge , choking on the bitterness of knowing that his belief had come too late . |
| 18 | Self-knowledge had come too late . |
| 19 | This was the real thing — but her encounter with Fen had come too late . |
| 20 | Bingham 's men had reigned in the rain ; what a pity the deluge of good results had come too late to save the harvest . |
| 21 | The young man , with no means of meeting the acceptance when it came due , took fright and told the whole story to J.W. who told his father who , on the advice of his solicitor , consented to pay back the borrowed £150 with interest at five per cent per annum , and to return the trumpery jewellery which luckily his son had considered too worthless to sell . |
| 22 | He was n't very fond of the river Wye , for its rocky crevasses had claimed too many young lives even during the short time he had been there . |
| 23 | He stated that he had met too many people who had become mentally disturbed by playing about with ideas and activities which have done them deep emotional damage . |
| 24 | They had suffered too much at each other 's hands to be able to communicate now . |
| 25 | After her husband 's death Valerie Eliot declared , " He felt he had paid too high a price to be a poet , that he had suffered too much " . |
| 26 | On the other hand , for all his ferocity in matters of principle , the archbishop was an aged and a sick man who had suffered too many humiliations and had offended too many of his fellow prelates in the 1290s and since to command strong support from them ; he was still unsure of papal backing for his measures , and indeed found them countermanded by Clement . |
| 27 | Afraid lest she had revealed too much , she added quickly , ‘ Tell me about your visit to Maythorpe House . ’ |
| 28 | Montgomery had seen too many such people to feel more than a token sympathy . |
| 29 | She had seen too many ghost skulls , and all under the faces of people who were now dead . |
| 30 | He had seen too many prominent European industrialists toppled from their pedestals by tabloid revelations of the pathetic vanity of their wives , frivolously whittling away the family money on a succession of oversexed gigolos . |