Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] too [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The first is whether we tend to accept too readily the veracity and accuracy of media reports .
2 PAMELA : [ aside ] Now I begin to know too well why all his hard trials of me and my black apprehensions would not let me hate him .
3 Down in the photographers ' pit , a battalion of WWF security gentlemen keep the writhing , crowd-surfing mob back by redirecting those two-minute messiahs that get passed too close to the barrier .
4 ooh you get rowed too quickly you do
5 Your trouble is that you get dressed too quickly !
6 Here I am , for Chrissakes , about to dine alongside two people who knew Claudia Cohn-Casson , in surroundings she knew well , in an ambience which I know ail too well , although I have only just arrived .
7 In the latter case , if you try to drive too hard a bargain , you may find that the offer is withdrawn .
8 Frenzied attempts to work off the festive flab can lead to muscle and tendon injuries as people try to do too much too quickly .
9 I overwork , I know that , and I try to do too much sometimes .
10 Enterprising market economies are always — always , not sometimes — more effective in producing a higher standard of living and a better quality of life than those in which Governments try to run too much themselves .
11 Try to swap too late , hold on too long and you get assassinated and that 's it ; that 's you back to the cave with twenty other flea-bitten reduced-statures and the bright idea of bringing some fire into the cave !
12 I apologize ; I tend to eat too fast — you ca n't imagine what it does to my liver . ’
13 When I started meeting people , even previous to the job I was in , right ? er you tend to get too too friendly and not keep it on a on a business basis like .
14 Other firms risk going too far the other way , imposing a too-narrow management — sometimes from outside the profession — and so alienating partners .
15 GUIL : ( Broken ) We 've travelled too far , and our momentum has taken over ; we move idly towards eternity , without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation .
16 We 've come too soon
17 ‘ We 've come too far not to finish it ourselves , ’ Masklin mumbled .
18 ‘ We 've come too far to just stop , have n't we ? ’
19 ‘ I 've come too far from the ways of men to be able to go back now … but we must get away from that sea ! ’
20 ‘ My problem is I 've won too much too late , ’ said Torrance .
21 If a buyer has access to a seller 's cost structure then he is in a powerful position to negotiate a cheaper price , or at least avoid paying too high a price .
22 Well I think we 've probably got enough , something 's got to go , oh we 've got too too much some of
23 He added : ‘ My scoring record is n't too bad this season but I 've got too long without a goal and I need one bacly .
24 ‘ But we 've sold too cheaply in the past and it wo n't happen again . ’
25 Avoid getting too close to them and certainly do n't try to wrestle with them or restrain them .
26 I 've dialled too quickly , she thought .
27 And beer advertising has left the nation with the immortal phrase , ‘ It 's what your right arm 's for ’ , which often comes in handy when you 've gone too long without a laugh .
28 ‘ You 've gone too far , ’ said Quinn , who knew London like a cab-driver .
29 ‘ You 've gone too far this time .
30 ‘ I 've gone too far already , ’ he muttered cryptically as he turned away .
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