Example sentences of "have [vb pp] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may have heard too much of Moby 's ‘ Go ’ by now , but there can be few complaints otherwise : Meat Beat Manifesto , DJ Carl Cox , Nightmares On Wax , Orbital etc , provide a mixture of the subtle and the hardcore in aid of peace . |
| 2 | high-profile job and the leadership of a professional association , which might have proven too much for a lesser , or older , man . |
| 3 | Not that anybody would have looked too good in that gloom . |
| 4 | It may have come too late to save your husband , but I beg of you , Karen , spare the life of our unborn baby ! ’ |
| 5 | Ireland 's defeat of England may have come too late to influence the marginal selections but it certainly highlighted the shortcomings of some of the English players who were subsequently selected . |
| 6 | She would n't have suffered too much . |
| 7 | ‘ I may have said too much . |
| 8 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 9 | They skirted the edge of the open space , keeping to the borders of woodland which had once been landscaped , and Melanie was grateful , for she would have felt too visible , too exposed out on the sea of grass — a sitting target for some marksman , for the arrow of any figure in Lincoln green who might be flitting among the mossy trunks . |
| 10 | So here are a few of mine , mixed in with answers to those questions you might have felt too silly to ask . |
| 11 | An artist can never have seen too much , read too much , and even if the time is right for a fallow period , then that is exactly when it is also right to go out and see , read , feel , as deeply as possible . |
| 12 | I — I must have had too much to drink . |
| 13 | And if you 've been out and about on public transport this evening , you should n't have had too many problems . |
| 14 | If she had n't kept busy all the time she would have thought too much about James , and about Maggie . |
| 15 | Alternatively , the police might have got too close . |
| 16 | It might have invested too little in building its capital stock , thus perhaps enfeebling itself in future competition with foreign rivals . |
| 17 | Mussolini might have entertained another fancy , Churchill might have become too drunk to cope , and so on . |
| 18 | This means that publication of excavation reports , as the Frere Report indicates ( 1975 ) , will also have to be transformed , since large pottery reports may now have become too expensive to print in the traditional manner , and may have to be available in microfiche sheets . |
| 19 | But Leith 's glance went from him to where , at some time in the night , he must have become too hot and in stupor had shed his clothes , which were now in a crumpled heap by the side of the bed . |
| 20 | We may have tampered too much with infinity . |
| 21 | But the weighty haul may have proved too much for the raiders . |
| 22 | However , expectations of a nirvana in mental health for visitors to the ‘ English Riviera ’ ( as the area is promoted for tourist purposes ) may have proved too great for some . |
| 23 | For the philosophy will have proved too weak to solve what is , after all , a familiar and pervasive problem for Marxists . |
| 24 | A new owner , or his agent , may have found too many properties to maintain , at the same time new premises would have been needed for managers in a central or more convenient position relative to the estate , or within reach of an important market . |
| 25 | Typing would have seemed too formal . |
| 26 | It added interest to a face that otherwise would have appeared too white , smooth and bland . |
| 27 | A plane ticket to the United States , however , would have cost too much . |
| 28 | However , even in the fluid world of Thai politics , this time he may have gone too far to turn back . |
| 29 | He says they may have gone too far but it has to be remembered that they were being provoked by people who were trespassing . |
| 30 | It may have gone too far , they may have bashed away too much . |