Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The magnets are expensive and lose their magnetism if banged or dropped too many times . |
| 2 | Many studies were too small , too short , or had too many drop-outs . |
| 3 | There was widespread international sympathy for the mujaheddin as opponents of Soviet invasion : but this obscured the internal , civil war , origins of the conflict and led too few observers to ask what the programme of the tribal insurgents was , not least with regard to women . |
| 4 | Surely Jesus is the way the Truth and the Life , and the validity of his message is compromised and attacked too much already in our nation today ? |
| 5 | At first I only wore the bins for homework and blackboard but , as the years rolled myopically by , I came to rely on them more and became too lazy to take them off . |
| 6 | Building started piecemeal in the 18th century , and became too many to mention , but there is a history of the major banks bursting . ’ |
| 7 | The hearing was abandoned half way through the second day on medical advice when Mr McTear contracted pneumonia and became too ill to carry on . |
| 8 | Close ties with a medical publisher had enabled us to monitor early attempts to move from a traditional print-based publishing enterprise to new technologies : laser-disc publication had proved wasteful and made too many demands of staff with no experience in editing or marketing such material , let alone its production ; on-line database publication drawing on the company 's range of printed publications , many of which were in electronic form anyway before imprisonment on paper , proved more compatible with existing operations and more amenable to the skills of existing staff . |
| 9 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 10 | The two-hour battle did not exactly revive memories of Croft 's professional heyday when she reached the lofty heights of world No 22 as she struggled with her serve , and produced too many errors to get into any sort of groove . |
| 11 | Lary , yeah like hey you when and got too Lary ! |
| 12 | Agnes first screwed up her face , then she stretched it before she muttered , ‘ That cousin Mary in Durham , the one you have n't spoken to for twelve years , if not longer , or , as I should say , who has n't spoken to you since she married Mr Boston , a man of supposed wealth and position , and got too big for her boots , as you 've often stated ? |
| 13 | It was too late to go to the campsite , or even to get a bus out of town , so we stopped at a hotel where they worried about us and charged too much for Coke . |
| 14 | ‘ And found too many imperfections . ’ |
| 15 | It was Leckey 's first NI championship win of the season and came too late to threaten Emerson 's position . |
| 16 | In two or three years Luis , Patricio and Lorenzo would be catching up with Miguel 's cousins , and by this time Miguel , who drank and ate too much , might well be over the top . |
| 17 | But she became too well known and received too much support and the paramilitary murdered her eventually . |
| 18 | The Opposition contended that the words ‘ in the interests of national security ’ were too vague and too wide and conferred too much discretion on the Home Office and the security services . |
| 19 | We 've been out here too long and risked too much for Earth Central to give up on us now . ’ |
| 20 | He was also concerned that the traditional course overemphasised factual knowledge and paid too little attention to the attitudes that modern doctors need to develop towards their patients , their colleagues , and their work . |
| 21 | He said fraud cases cost too much and happened too late . |
| 22 | So three of the punters , from Fawdon , Newcastle , hitched a lift to the Ripon race to put on £400 in bets — but they got stuck in a jam and arrived too late . |
| 23 | The Prime Minister will no doubt have noticed the interesting exception that President Bush made in his state of the union message to Congress , when he said that his Government were too big and spent too much . |
| 24 | " As you know , Sara , your aunt 's income has been dwindling of late years — she was very careless of investments and spent too much of her capital . |
| 25 | His resignation comes after a report claimed it was cumbersome and spent too much on administration . |
| 26 | The Socialist government of the 1980s spent too much money and collected too little , thereby going spectacularly into the red . |
| 27 | Like many distance runners in the eighties , Solly experimented with altitude training , and discovered too late that it takes more than thin air to do the trick . |
| 28 | She had lived among and watched too many other lives . |
| 29 | I 've been dating a wonderful chick for two years now but she 's just too frigid , sex is out of the question so one night I masturbated and pulled too hard on the sensitive part of my penis , now the tissues around the foreskin are swollen and septic but I 'm too distressed and embarrassed to see a doctor and my f girlfriend wants nothing to do with me , I find it hard to urinate what can I do ? |
| 30 | It was red and looked too small to be a lorry but never the less it had wheels like the carts in the village . |