Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had lost him for a while , at the party , but she 'd already been too drunk to worry . |
| 2 | He had perhaps been too long in high office , too isolated from discordant views by the well-oiled Birmingham machine to take full account of the volume of dissent . |
| 3 | It had all been too fast . |
| 4 | This alone had been enough to bring frowns to Felipe 's dark face , but as they were leaving Ana 's tears had suddenly been too much for Mitch to bear . |
| 5 | He had apparently been too happy to bother about sending word home . |
| 6 | There had already been too much of it in our novels . |
| 7 | She had brought a couple of dresses with her because she had not been too sure about the heat . |
| 8 | It seemed all of her father 's old acquaintances had not been too impressed by his choice of wife . |
| 9 | The truth had not been too difficult to discover . |
| 10 | The man she had just interviewed , a Mr Liam Groves , had not been too happy to be interviewed on Boxing Day . |
| 11 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 12 | Until he was seven his life at home though poverty stricken had not been too bad . |
| 13 | For some reason he had not been too worried out it last night , nor was he now . |
| 14 | But Ferreira had just been too good . |
| 15 | Some had just been too good to miss . |
| 16 | The subcommittee said it was a matter of urgency to ensure the catch was reduced to at least the levels of previous years ( which themselves had possibly been too high ) . ’ |
| 17 | Her insistence seemed absurd in view of her own failed marriage , but I had always been too nervous to point this out , to ask what she made of the break in connection between the symbolism of the dress and the unassailability of the marriage vow . |
| 18 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 19 | It had always been too late . |
| 20 | However , most informed commentary suggested that its 860 acres had always been too small , and in 1988 it was virtually doubled in size . |
| 21 | She had always been too conscientious , never spared herself , been afraid to leave him for longer than a day , she deserved a rest , a holiday . |
| 22 | He had kissed and fondled her and she had responded as well as she could but they had both been too aware of each others inexperience and uncertainty to achieve fulfilment . |
| 23 | Her mother had n't been too pleased with Kevin as a son-in-law . |
| 24 | If I had n't been too dumb I could have come to Mars-U as well , then I would n't have been alone . |
| 25 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 26 | He had n't been too well lately they said . |
| 27 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 28 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 29 | It had n't been too bad , apart from people being cold and wet and getting eaten all the time . |
| 30 | And some of the great families had n't been too happy about nomes being able to go where they pleased , without having to ask permission . |