Example sentences of "[noun sg] who have [vb pp] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a soldier who had got too big for his boots . |
| 2 | It was warm over here by the fire and there was an unpleasant stench of stale giant and the surreptitious breaking of wind from Goll the Gorm who had eaten too much onion broth again , but these things would have to be overlooked . |
| 3 | When Eliot heard that Wyndham Lewis had been travelling around North Africa in a thick English suit , he remarked , " Lewis was always a heavily dressed man " ; and of a lady who had acquired too many petrol coupons during the first year of the war , he said , " There is always bound to be a certain element of iniquity in these matters " . |
| 4 | In this stance , Galas is very much the New York activist who has grown too used to seeing friends die . |
| 5 | Standing around , waiting for the police to arrive , the resident and the intern made bets on whether the case would be a real emergency or just a teenager who had swallowed too much aspirin . |
| 6 | Now , so , Face is trying to sort of put off Sir Epicure Manhom by saying , you know , this a mad woman who 's done too much learning nice little attack on women here by Johnson , who , who is one of the biggest misogynists in the world , erm a woman who 's gone crazy with learning and who knows nothing because er she 's just a prostitute and therefore she 's thick . |
| 7 | Curled tight like an embryo that does n't want to be born , like a baby who 's had too much pain . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He left the room abruptly , with the air of a man who has revealed too much of himself . |
| 10 | THE HILARIOUS cry of the '70s rocker , dragged out for all festival reviews , particularly as a photo caption for the picture of a naked man who has taken too much acid and is lying up to his neck in a mud pool . |
| 11 | Blond-mopped and doughty-featured , he resembles — Nature 's fault not his , but one magnified on screen — a schoolboy who has eaten too many buns during the tuck-box break . |