Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may eat too much , I know I drink too much , but I pursue justice and do the best I can . ’ |
| 2 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 3 | If the drop is almost perfectly spherical it may magnify too much . |
| 4 | Or a pregnant girl may wait too long to be able to have one legally , or may be afraid of what her family will say . |
| 5 | To be perfectly honest Don I think you , you should retain the television , but you should restrict too with the regard to your use of it |
| 6 | But I do n't think we should make too much of it at this stage . |
| 7 | Mm even quite a lot of water inside I should think too . |
| 8 | Lloyd George perhaps entertained similar doubts , for his first reactions were to suggest that he should resign too , and to ask if he might speak to Bonar Law 's doctor . |
| 9 | But there is something else you should know too . |
| 10 | I just thought that the Jockey Club should know too . |
| 11 | And we should wait too . |
| 12 | In the phonetic/phonological dimension , I do not think we should speak too readily of Early Modern ‘ Standard ’ English . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you should look too , ’ said Mr Thabane , re-emerging , breathing fast . |
| 14 | To create this small world where running is routine the coach must run too . |
| 15 | Beyond them and further south sprawled the larger roofs of the palace compound , the buildings there , as he knew , separated by broad , shady boulevards paved with polished limestone kept regularly watered in case it should become too hot for the feet of the rich . |
| 16 | I do n't think it should become too academic , it should be whatever people want at the grassroots level , we have a couple of thousand years of patriarchy behind us and we 're not going to change things overnight . |
| 17 | Underlying the strategic variants were similar fundamental objectives : the prevention of war in Europe ; the denial of sanctuary status to the superpower homelands lest Moscow and Washington should become too trigger-happy in Europe ; a continuing guarantee from the United States — but ideally one which was accompanied by overall American restraint in the conduct of the Cold War ; and the avoidance of major increases in Western European defence budgets . |
| 18 | We must insist too that the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ is independent of practical advantages and disadvantages . |
| 19 | ‘ And I must hurry too . |
| 20 | One must remember too that the authors of many of the changes we now see have been Conservative Secretaries of State . |
| 21 | The solar-wind image must rotate too : in fact it is sweeping past us at about 400 km/s . |
| 22 | If the object is moving , then your eyes must move too . |
| 23 | If The Lord of the Rings should approach too close to ‘ Gospel-truth ’ , to the Christian myth in which Tolkien himself believed , it might forfeit its status as a story and become at worst a blasphemy , an ‘ Apocryphal gospel ’ , at best a dull allegory rehearsing in admittedly novel form what everyone ought to know already . |
| 24 | Going as well as any when crashing out two from home in the Champion Hurdle , he should have too much finishing pace for older brother Morley Street . |
| 25 | But a spokesman speaking for Mr Joe Walker , chairman of County Durham 's education committee , rejected the suggestion tha t because two neighbouring figures guessed the teachers ' pay rise , then they should have too . |
| 26 | If the police authority was invited to co-opt people to add to their numbers , making sure that the majority still stayed with the councillors , then I do n't think one should have too much objection to it , but if it 's to be done in this er this way of central er of central allocation er in the form of the answer to the question to my noble friend Lord Lyle from my noble friend the Minister on the 17th of January which the Noble Lord , Lord Carrigan made reference in which these people are to be er i i it staggers me my Lord , I have to stop for the moment , it staggers me the er the insolence , the insolence of the Home Office in writing down job descriptions and personal profiles for people that are going to function locally . |
| 27 | I do n't think you should have too much . |
| 28 | He thought of his own longing for it and of the dream she must have too . |
| 29 | ‘ You must be very good fighter , ’ added Balvinder , ‘ and you must have too many titar ( partridges ) . |
| 30 | Neither the fact that the school has a record of managing and presenting a favourable public image , nor the apparent shortfall between the observed reality and the claims of senior staff , should detract too much from this conclusion . |