Example sentences of "[verb] too much " in BNC.
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| 1 | And and I , because er , I enjoy being pregnant , but I do n't enjoy too much bringing up babies |
| 2 | Either nature does not contain it or nature contains too much to be conceived any longer as natural . |
| 3 | This startling discovery has supported the idea that cancer develops when a cell contains too much of a perfectly normal cellular protein . |
| 4 | I 'm not very happy about this diet — for one thing , I think it contains too much protein . |
| 5 | Perhaps the Institute can , indeed , maintain an appropriate balance between the public interest and members ' interests over the longer term , but on the evidence currently available , it should come as no surprise that members are unwilling to accept too much on trust . |
| 6 | But do n't add any fertiliser ; these plants will have to stand through the winter , so it 's not a good idea to encourage too much soft growth . |
| 7 | Passengers were on holiday ; they did n't want to be reminded too much of illness or its associated formalities . |
| 8 | Very quietly and not pressing too much on details at first , getting him talking . |
| 9 | In her nervousness she used too much force , and her hand , released by the tearing of paper , flung out and knocked over the wine . |
| 10 | ‘ It seems that he reversed his car rather quickly and in doing so he inadvertently used too much gas , ’ said Mr Tweddle . |
| 11 | This places too much burden on others . |
| 12 | The UK government 's strategy for reducing carbon emissions has been attacked by environmentalists , who argue that it places too much reliance on voluntary action by industry and the presumed effect of market forces , and that it pays scant attention to the need for research into energy efficiency . |
| 13 | bubble , there 's only one thing wrong with it , I said to my lad many a time I said the trouble is with the world today everybody wants too much money for doing what they have to do , that 's why things are dear |
| 14 | Which is more than can be said for the album sleeve of the new ACR album , which has caused unheard-of dissent at the offices of British Coal who claim that the artwork looks too much for comfort like the British Rail Freight logo and are threatening legal action . |
| 15 | M. Shirley Emerson , a GP from Cambridge married to another GP , writes : ‘ On the whole I think women whinge too much about the inability of men to cope , but probably give them little chance to practise . |
| 16 | BLACKADDER GOES FORTH in which Hugh Laurie shouts too much and then I RENOUNCE WAR does conscientious objectors . |
| 17 | Both of the options put forward by the Democrats were rejected by Bush on the grounds that they involved too much structural reform and were contrary to the principles of the free market . |
| 18 | They might have been frightened , or offended , but they were laughing too much . |
| 19 | But Henry noticed how thin I was , and that I was laughing too much and could not sit still . |
| 20 | TWO BROAD-MINDED YOUNG GIRLS with unfortunate habit of laughing too much , forced to wear thermal scoober suits under their clothing because of the weather , buried in a boarding-school in the Midlands , but actually enjoying it ! |
| 21 | I was still laughing too much from from some comment that the Government did one one of their four promises was to was to put pri public transport before private roads . |
| 22 | ‘ There are a lot of groups about who offer their services virtually free of charge , and so even cost-wise we do n't have to find too much money out of the amenity fund , it 's absolutely marvellous . ’ |
| 23 | The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant . |
| 24 | For these people use of the steel-jawed leghold trap by commercial trappers is wrong because it causes too much pain , whereas other , ‘ more humane methods ’ of trapping would be permissible because the pain they cause , though real enough , is not excessive . |
| 25 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 26 | One marriage counsellor commented , ‘ It is a common difficulty that couples want too much from each other . |
| 27 | You want too much wealth which I can never possess . |
| 28 | Cos the people want too much for them ! |
| 29 | Waterfall clutters too much . |
| 30 | Great Warriors did n't want to attract too much attention to themselves when they were trying to think their way out of their penalty period in the ultimate war . |