Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] too [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was my fault because I got too close to Senna . |
| 2 | I pictured doing an impossible thing — I thought that if I got too close to coming , I could somehow angle my leg and contort it so that I caught hold of my cock in my bent knee and squeezed it like a nut in a nutcracker until it stopped wanting to come . ’ |
| 3 | I began to see the nervousness in your eyes whenever I got too close to you , and when I kissed you at the inn I knew that Matilda had lied about one point at least . |
| 4 | That was my fault because I got too close to Senna . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , if you got too close to him you were tempted to look around for the source of the odour — perhaps there was an overdressed salad in the vicinity ? |
| 6 | Elsa departed because she could n't take Fagg 's oft-repeated loud muttering of ‘ Swiss maybe , but Swiss-Kraut certainly ’ ; two male Chinese took umbrage when he denounced them as Nips ; an observing Hindu became revolted when Mauleverer , an occasional resident , subjected him to intense cross-questioning about whether the liver was from a Dutch calf and was being served sufficiently rare ; and a delicious-looking Filipino , who strayed too close to Fishbane at breakfast , received a pinch which made her hysterical . |
| 7 | Because if they got too close to us , they might start thinking . ’ |
| 8 | These books were also very dated , in that they were joky — look at me being clever , they seemed too often to be crying . |
| 9 | Hassan and the Omanis put their shoulders against the tail-board , Hassan cursing as he moved too close to the edge of the pit . |
| 10 | That gave me a big shock that did , and after that I used to move away if he came too close to me . |
| 11 | He steered too far to the left and nicked the edge of the median strip . |