Example sentences of "too [adv] then " in BNC.

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1 We did n't do too badly then and I suggest we may turn out the winner again .
2 The bridge pickup is positively vicious , but if it all gets a bit too much then switch positions 2 and 4 transform the sound into something sweet enough to rot your teeth .
3 If these adventures seem a bit too much then try The Jabberwock ( HVS 4c , 5a , 4c ) up the obvious crack next to the righthand arête .
4 If you find that it tends to ‘ pull in ’ too much then cast on for two by one rib .
5 If the new person shows any signs of shock or fright , or if he or she stays purple for too long then give one dose of Aconite M .
6 If you stop an LM remedy too soon then the patient will experience relapse .
7 If you get on the layline too early then you risk being slowed down by everyone tacking in front of you and , furthermore , if the wind shifts you have no option other than sailing on , thereby losing ground over your competitors .
8 There was the school with its faded maps , its cardboard-mounted Ten Commandments and the Regulations of the National Commissioners of Education in Dublin ( for this was long before the Partition of Ireland ) , the De Vere Foster copybooks , Joyce 's histories , Sullivan 's geographies and grammars , long desks with the initials of past generations cut on both sides , clerical school management ( the Methodists controlled five schools in the area — Thomas Street , Edgarstown , Derrycarne , Cloncore and Ballinary ) , teachers paid by results and anxious under the eyes of H M Inspectors ( too often then unenlightened inquisitors ) .
9 If review is drawn too narrowly then the spectre is raised of the tribunal becoming a power unto itself , of it adjudicating upon matters widely different from those that the legislature intended , and yet being free from control .
10 Too late then , surely , to change him for a better if the word goes against him . ’
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