Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's the betting he 's up to no good , and that he felt Dan Pearson got to know too much about him and needed to be silenced ? ’ |
| 2 | I felt the video tried to encompass too much to be really useful to any one level of skier . |
| 3 | Okay now erm , there 's a slight change of plan because er following one or two of the classes last week I realized that erm I had n't made myself very well understood last week and er what came back from one or two people was rather garbled , and really it 's my own fault because I probably tried to do too much too quickly and as a result perhaps er did n't make myself clear . |
| 4 | He tried to keep too much under his personal control , so that letters were neglected and he was always late . |
| 5 | It might be that if a bird tried to defend too large a territory the amount of energy it would gain from its territorial habit would actually decrease , as it spent more energy on extra defence than it gained from extra food supplies . |
| 6 | With a helpless sigh she stared into deep grey eyes that seemed to see too much . |
| 7 | Anna 's blue eyes seemed to see too much , and Merrill had already had enough of that discomfiting shrewdness from Luke . |
| 8 | If it came to unknown backgrounds , after all , no one seemed to know too much about Wheeler 's . |
| 9 | She ought to get out of her wet clothes , have a hot bath , make herself a hot drink , only that seemed to require too much effort . |
| 10 | The only trouble was that he never seemed to bother too much with punctuation — he apparently left that to me ! ’ |
| 11 | The men did as they pleased with him , and after a day or two at sea , he began to drink too much . |
| 12 | I did my best , but I suppose it was during that time that I began to drink too much and that finished off my promotion chances . |
| 13 | However , his new found wealth was also his undoing for he began to think too much and there came a night when , awash to the hack teeth , he boasted of his unholy aide . |
| 14 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 15 | Then , just as the silence between them threatened to become too intense yet again , he said on a soft , teasing , questioning note , ‘ Frank Lloyd Wright , eh ? |
| 16 | Unwilling to act in his proper person , Finch went back to London and started to live too high . |
| 17 | ‘ It was for the end-title sequence , and Michael Mills liked to have too much film rather than not enough , so the camera was still turning over when Michael got to just under a thousand feet ! ’ |
| 18 | He appeared to think too much acclaim might be detrimental as well as premature . |
| 19 | The wiring was a plumber 's nightmare , and we had to replace too thin starter leads . |
| 20 | You had to buy too many fonts , and it was too expensive , and people did n't want to by linotype matrices of that size . |
| 21 | And I almost added that my hair would probably fall out if I had to spend too much time with him . |
| 22 | And the Gospels , not the great illuminated book , but a smaller and stouter one , calculated to resist too crafty fingers by its less use and lighter pages , already lay on the silver-chased reliquary , centrally placed with accurate and reverent precision . |
| 23 | I was born too late and I discovered what I wanted to do too late and what I did I did too late and my death is about to come far too late . |
| 24 | Short , pugnacious and lacking in charm , Reshevsky tended to spend too much time on the early part of his games , but remained a tough opponent . |
| 25 | However , he refused to attach too much importance to these since they could be withdrawn at any time unless they were passed into law . |
| 26 | He , like his colleagues , had informal conversations with HMIs — who sometimes wanted to become too involved in visits , where they were ‘ in attendance ’ . |