Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pron] [was/were] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | Realising that she was too slight to lift him , Sarah was desperate . |
| 2 | He had been handcuffed and was crying with the pain , shouting that they were too tight . |
| 3 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 4 | In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side . |
| 5 | The cost of doing that it was too high for him . |
| 6 | According to a State Education Commission investigation , various work units across the country had refused 5,500 graduates in 1987 , indicating that there were too many coming from the universities . |
| 7 | Her husband had left her the year before for some Tex-Mex bitch , claiming that she was too boring to live with . |
| 8 | She was hardly aware of the car pulling up outside the house , or of going up to her bedroom , claiming that she was too exhausted to relax on the beach and enjoy the remainder of the sunshine . |
| 9 | The fight did not take place , Surrey claiming that he was too lowly born to fight with a king ; and the fish garth remained . |