Example sentences of "[pron] [vb infin] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't sleep , you made me laugh too much , |
| 2 | But most of us skated round these problems and did n't let ourselves become too entangled with anyone . |
| 3 | I 'm not allowed to love Oliver — it makes me feel too warm , too happy and safe . |
| 4 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 5 | That said , not once during his long wait did he let himself get too downhearted . |
| 6 | ‘ I had a dimple there , ’ the Senator had confessed with his engaging frankness , ‘ which my advisers determined made me look too baby-faced , and so we had it removed . ’ |
| 7 | Do n't you think too much ? |
| 8 | Or — as is very common — do you spend too much time worrying about what other people think of you ? |
| 9 | Now confidence has manifested in lots and lots of ways and its appealing to that confidence as much as the insecurity , er that makes the advertiser 's and the manufacturer 's of all manner of products er , their huge profits , now I guess we all spend money on , on various products and er , do you , do you worry about how much you spend on the body beautiful or just the body ? , do you or , I mean does any , I wonder if you think you spend too much on it ? , let me ask you that , do you spend too much money on your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no . |
| 10 | ‘ Would you mind too much if I sat … um … over there ? ’ |
| 11 | Well what do you call too small ? |
| 12 | Did you take too little or too much liquid on board ? |
| 13 | Just take care that fancying her does n't make you go too soft on the rest of the family , or too hard on anyone else . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't you go too bold now , ’ Jenkins muttered to Artemis as he checked her girths . |
| 15 | What do you mean too late ? |
| 16 | ‘ A 20th century Paladin ’ , cried US News World Report , a magazine that seldom let itself get too excited ; ‘ He stands alone as the sacrificed knight in the Iran-arms gambit , a true believer steeled and scarred by a lifetime of have-gun-will-travel missions . ’ |
| 17 | Alexander Ferguson died in 1889 of pneumonia after making one swim too many . |
| 18 | Do we have too much education ? |
| 19 | Not only that perhaps — I must be careful not to make everything seem too connected — but social and literary life was metamorphosing . |
| 20 | She had had enough of the blackout and the bombing and the shortages , and if she let herself think too much about the invasion she would become quite ill . |
| 21 | Or perhaps it was that he had not wanted to turn Bertha 's disappointment with her daughters into bitterness by seeing him show too much interest in his son . |
| 22 | Put it another way : Do they sag too much ? |
| 23 | " You must n't let her spend too much on me . " |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't let him drink too much , ’ she whispered . |
| 25 | They made him drink too much . |
| 26 | Concerned , however , that these words might make him seem too frivolous , in the simple delight he obviously took in playing with his cat , he checks himself with the criticism that ‘ verily it may well be called an idle man 's pastime ’ . |
| 27 | His very intelligent scrutiny of a role can make him seem too detached , too much the performer of a plan . ’ |
| 28 | This man , this religious leader , this pharisee who came to Jesus by night and as he comes to Jesus he , is full of questions , but Jesus does n't let him get too many of them out because the questions that Nicodemus has to ask are not the real issues . |
| 29 | I should n't have asked that , Florence Ames thought , he does n't care to be questioned about his mother and it makes me seem too familiar , too prying . |
| 30 | ‘ Will it hurt too much to tell us about him ? ’ |