Example sentences of "it [verb] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game looks as good as it plays too . |
| 2 | The danger of this pragmatic approach is that it encourages too ready an acceptance of historical costs , and thus change becomes difficult . |
| 3 | I just had to tend to him when it got too much for someone who is not that involved in drugs . |
| 4 | She had been going to set it loose in case it got too tame to fend for itself . |
| 5 | Everyone took turns to patrol the streets at night during air raids , and had to be particularly vigilant in the event of firebombs , because if they were on the spot with their fire buckets of sand and water , many a fire could be put out before it got too bad . |
| 6 | I was courteous , but did n't encourage conversation too much because I wanted to start detecting before it got too late . |
| 7 | Before it got too hot . |
| 8 | We met on the beach early next morning before it got too hot . |
| 9 | They left early next morning , before it got too hot . |
| 10 | When the radio began to grate , I turned it off and spread myself out on the bed , using the knapsack as a pillow , and then when it got too sharp , making dents in the back of my head , I took it away and lay flat . |
| 11 | She remembered from last time how quickly it got too tight . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Eddie Stratton was to enthuse about a quick stroll around the centre of Oxford before it got too dark , and an invitation to accompany him was accepted by Mrs Brown , a woman with whom he 'd become friendly on the tour , and who probably felt a little flattered to be asked . |
| 13 | It got too expensive , he says . |
| 14 | I only bought ten in last night , I 've got some more to put in tonight , it got too dark |
| 15 | Oh yes and and then it got too big for them they are no longer able to control it they 're not big enough for a big power two very big big brothers but they could n't run a company the size they built it . |
| 16 | So , while in 1814 the prime criticism of the idea was that it expected too much of human nature , too much of the people who were to live in the communities and of those who were to put them there , while then it was in short a social criticism , by 1832 the idea had become an economic nonsense . |
| 17 | Once the board has turned you will have to move forwards quickly to kill the turn before it goes too far . |
| 18 | Some people think that it goes too far , but I do n't see that it does , do you ? " |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , sometimes it goes too far — although I 've always said he must n't leave any marks that are too obvious . |
| 20 | ‘ Like I said , it goes too far sometimes , ’ she said brusquely . |
| 21 | but I think that 's , before it goes too far that 's the bit you 've got to get together is the police support 'cos if you look at Woodborough and Calverton they 've got a farm watch system in that area , the farmers were very very keen on doing |
| 22 | No because it goes , it goes too hard |
| 23 | How this could or should affect the political decision about banning lead in petrol is not a question which I am competent to answer ; it involves too many non-scientific aspects . |
| 24 | WAD general secretary Margaret Williams , said : ‘ At present , a lot of disabled people are unable to go to Grange Road because it involves too much walking . |
| 25 | It involves , it involves too much work , that 's why she ca n't do them like you . |
| 26 | Countertrade is a means of escaping from the straitjacket of the world system when it pinches too tightly . |
| 27 | Zoshchenko could caricature them in the 1920s , but by the 1930s it became too dangerous to ridicule what had solidified into a standardized bureaucratic mode of oppression . |
| 28 | No matter how he tried , he could not judge exactly when to empty the pot before it became too heavy for him to carry all the way to the bathroom . |
| 29 | The Design centre finally failed because it became too elitist and alienated the general public . |
| 30 | It became too much trouble sometimes even to go to the Camp Cinema . |