Example sentences of "[v-ing] too [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beware of matching too many colours together — if you have chosen a fairly strong coloured mount then it may be easier to have a plain white or cream silk as the background , or you could use a plain mount card in a neutral shade like cream , behind the coloured mount of your choice . |
| 2 | Very quietly and not pressing too much on details at first , getting him talking . |
| 3 | Without pressing too many keys . |
| 4 | They might have been frightened , or offended , but they were laughing too much . |
| 5 | But Henry noticed how thin I was , and that I was laughing too much and could not sit still . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps an increase in friction in the system is absorbing too much energy . |
| 9 | He had to sell Ebberston in 1848 , thanks to keeping too many racehorses and losing too many bets on them , and he died in London in 1866 , cared for in his last years by a kind and well-endowed lady friend called Elizabeth William . |
| 10 | Willie is not one for keeping too many records , but one thing he 'll always remember is the remarkable coincidence of his three Open Championship victories . |
| 11 | One of the problems we 've had of late is the wine keeping too much tannin as it matures . |
| 12 | S so it 's , it 's , it 's either that the cadres are being rightist , they are protecting the landlords so they are keeping too much , or the problem is that the cadres , what we looked at earlier , the cadres are getting in themselves and they are taking too much for themselves . |
| 13 | Alison was already becoming too much of a fixture in his life . |
| 14 | And some are becoming too much of a good thing . |
| 15 | The pressure was becoming too much for him , and though at first they had taken the challenge with both hands , and had almost made a joke of it , now the months of confinement and running , running and confinement , the eternal hiding , were beginning to take their toll of his spirit . |
| 16 | On top of it all , the remorseless heat was becoming too much for Hugh , his sunburn itched and he felt sick . |
| 17 | Again you , you never felt that you were , because you were doing that , you never had the feeling that perhaps you were becoming too much a part of management rather than er simply representing work or did you simply see it as part of your , your job to look after the incentive scheme in that way because it did er that was a part of representing the workforce ? |
| 18 | It was becoming too much . |
| 19 | Well they would be o , they 're representing too many people for them to misbehave . |
| 20 | His head was itching too much from the dreadful old grey wig . |
| 21 | The biggest danger is that of applying too much pitch at this point , causing the model to gain height again while dissipating all the useful blade energy . |
| 22 | ‘ Skin absorbs what it needs within around ten minutes , so any greasiness left after this means you 're applying too much . ’ |
| 23 | Make sure you do not flex the motherboard by applying too much pressure . |
| 24 | ‘ This left arm 's aching too much , I 'll have to do one . ’ |
| 25 | As early as 1959 West Germany and Italy had begun to build their own industries to prevent France gaining too much dominance in the sector . |
| 26 | I think he just wants to keep putting it off ; he might be frightened of me gaining too much independence , or he might simply be scared that I 'll kill myself the way a lot of youths seem to when they get a bike . |
| 27 | Just as the Fouchet Plan was a French attempt to prevent the EEC Commission acquiring too much influence over the national governments , so the attitude on defence was a reaction to de Gaulle 's dislike and distrust of the United States , which he felt wielded undue influence in Europe . |
| 28 | Consequently , their concern was to prevent elected representatives from acquiring too much independent power or becoming a permanent self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 29 | We entirely accept the need to avoid a single buyer acquiring too many bus companies . |
| 30 | We accept the need to avoid a single buyer acquiring too many bus companies . |