Example sentences of "[pers pn] too [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform .
2 ‘ He tried to say it was too much worry for him but I know him too well to believe that .
3 She knew him too well to imagine he 'd let her get away easily , even when he learned there was money .
4 Wycliffe had scarcely spoken since leaving the hall and Scales knew him too well to try to involve him in conversation .
5 He knew her too well to think that she would allow affection to outweigh her sense of right and wrong .
6 It is not putting it too strongly to say that marriage is in crisis not only in the UK , but throughout the Western world .
7 Was it too soon to wear Faith 's amethyst brooch ?
8 That had shocked me until I heard it too often to remain shocked .
9 He knows them too well to despise them . ’
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