Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So lowly , indeed , was the job that it was long considered too insignificant to warrant a credit on the programme . |
| 2 | The tasks of survival suddenly looked too urgent , and too grave , for the intellectual indulgences of Modernist metaphysics . |
| 3 | Part of her mind , the cool , rational fragment , was insisting that it was all happening too fast and too soon . |
| 4 | The assistant putting that bib on him had foolishly come too close . |
| 5 | While males , especially conspecific males , can be decidedly hostile to one another , territorial requirements are small , and non-cichlids are left alone unless they are unwise enough to come too near to a female with fry . |
| 6 | They were not popular , Long deemed too grey , Oulton too abstract . |
| 7 | The huge kitchen suddenly seemed too crowded . |
| 8 | I think that is an absolute fantasy and I think that it is er perhaps going too far in our denigration of members of local authorities to think their attitude towards their police force would be in any way changed , were some of the members to be appointed from a list which had been drawn up by the Home Secretary . |
| 9 | As some girls suddenly look too tall to be ballet dancers , she became too large for her father 's devotion , for Haverford always preferred smallish women with what he had once described in one of his more personal ‘ Jottings ’ as the ‘ tip-tilted noses of impertinent page-boys ’ . |
| 10 | She thought it was all getting too nice and intimate . |
| 11 | Loesser 's The Most Happy Fella ( ) is the only ( nearly ) complete recording of this batch ; there is one scene missing which was apparently judged too visual to record , but this is a vivid performance , visual enough through the interpretations of Robert Weede as the winegrowing Tony , longing for happiness , and Jo Sullivan as his confused ‘ mail-order ’ bride Amy/Rosabella . |
| 12 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 13 | The Shah acknowledged to Hollingworth that he had perhaps become too remote from his people and that is courtiers had not always reported adverse criticisms to him , And he said that although he had earlier hoped that his stay abroad would be brief , he knew now that he would die in exile . |
| 14 | Lawrence remained too preoccupied with what in his adjusted mind he projected , disavowed , or consciously repudiated ; homosexuality especially remained too fascinating for either his strenuous vision of psychic adjustment or his banal view of sexual difference as unity in opposition to remain unharassed by it . |
| 15 | So much for a blatant attack , but what about the friendly stranger who suddenly comes too close for comfort in the car park outside the local pub ? |
| 16 | The demand for gas soon became too great for the coke ovens to supply it , so gas works were set up . |
| 17 | It just got too obvious that nobody bought the magazine so Moscow hauled in the chain . |
| 18 | Lastly , there is a ‘ Catalogue of large Trees which are admitted in the London Dispensary , but generally grow too large to be admitted into small gardens ’ . |
| 19 | In contradistinction to the indolent paupers who sponged off the Poor Rate and exploited pay make-up , and the hard-working landless town dweller who also suffered , he further cited the most respectable portion of the peasantry who were prevented from rising above the nominal low price of hire , so that the wage level ‘ must soon fall too low to allow the most abstemious worker to maintain himself . |
| 20 | Colleges and universities were advised to strengthen discipline , already considered too strict by many students , and step up ideological work . |
| 21 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 22 | ‘ Waal , I do n't exactly feel too good myself , ’ he replied morosely . |
| 23 | It was a good sign ; if the jacks did n't decimate the fry the water would soon become too populated and no longer produce the big fish me and my ilk were keen to catch . |
| 24 | I think it just gets too complicated when you look at the various contracts . |
| 25 | But there were fears that it would soon lean too far to be corrected . |
| 26 | ( Joseph ) Startled by the camp 's ferocious defence , Miles mustered the 5th Infantry for a charge ‘ towards the village on foot , but the withering fire of the Indians soon proved too severe , and attempts to capture the village by such means had to be abandoned . ’ |
| 27 | Even if you could hold him down you might easily cut too far and hurt him . ’ |
| 28 | At the start it seemed to improve the matches but it , they 've just become too hectic now I think . |
| 29 | You just become too slow . |
| 30 | Perhaps I have just become too comfortable with the cheering notion that women are far too busy getting on with their careers and their lives to crucify themselves worrying about ragged cuticles or the size of their ankles . |