Example sentences of "[verb] too [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But Marseille — and in particular president Bernard Tapie — want too much too soon and make too many changes to try to achieve their ends . |
| 2 | People want too much too fast , and when there 's the merest hint of success on the horizon , there 's problems . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My problem is I 've won too much too late , ’ said Torrance . |
| 4 | Curbishley said : ‘ My main aim is to get back to fitness and I did n't want to try too much too quickly . |
| 5 | Colleges were inexperienced in designing BA courses , had under-resourced libraries in many cases , and were trying to ‘ do too much too quickly ’ . |
| 6 | The UK 's much needed lamb export trade to the Continent might rally promptly when the final curtain falls , but it would be unwise to expect too much too soon . |
| 7 | Ten minutes too long during a schooling session might mean a week 's set-back in a training programme , so be careful not to either work for too long or to expect too much too soon . |
| 8 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 9 | It is right that in the negotiations , which must remain confidential , they should seek to prevent us from going too far too soon . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's going too far too fast , ’ said Ellen , getting into bed . |
| 11 | A third type of comfort to be drawn from an apparently stable system like Denmark 's lies in the reminder of how many of the current fears of British ‘ curriculum managers ’ are , precisely , ‘ current ’ : the transitory outcome of attempting too much too fast , rather than an intrinsic feature of centrally-defined curricula . |
| 12 | ‘ I have n't been able to do too much so far . |
| 13 | If your preparation phase and goal setting has been done carefully and you do not expect yourself to do too much too soon , you should find that for the most part you succeed . |
| 14 | Bill Clinton lamented that , in his first 100 days , people had expected him to do too much too soon . |
| 15 | Frenzied attempts to work off the festive flab can lead to muscle and tendon injuries as people try to do too much too quickly . |
| 16 | Though the demand is great , the danger is that we may want to do too much too quickly . |
| 17 | Leon Panetta , director of the Office of Management and Budget , warned Mr Clinton about trying to do too much too quickly . |
| 18 | Do n't be tempted to use your car — it 's a false economy , as you will discover too late just how much you own , after countless journeys . |
| 19 | It was important that the brigade did not move too far forward too soon . |
| 20 | Do not try too hard too soon . |
| 21 | " It would take too long now anyway . |
| 22 | Doing too much too quickly can be a strain on muscles and joints that are n't used to work . |
| 23 | Do not have too much too often . |
| 24 | They rarely mean real harm , and go too far only infrequently . |
| 25 | He was right to try to improve the English game , but he tried to change too much too quickly . |
| 26 | I badly needed more money , so the take-over could not come too quickly as far as I was concerned . |
| 27 | You 're playing too fast right now . |
| 28 | I 've worked too damned hard just to let everything be ruined because of unsavoury gossip . |
| 29 | Put another way , it has seemed that the primary concern addressed in the Beckford ( London Borough of Brent , 1985 ) , Carlile ( London Borough of Greenwich , 1987 ) and Henry ( London Borough of Lambeth , 1987 ) reports was that social workers did too little too late , while the primary concern addressed in the Cleveland report ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) was that social workers did too much too soon . |
| 30 | Put another way , it has seemed that the primary concern addressed in the Beckford ( London Borough of Brent , 1985 ) , Carlile ( London Borough of Greenwich , 1987 ) and Henry ( London Borough of Lambeth , 1987 ) reports was that social workers did too little too late , while the primary concern addressed in the Cleveland report ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) was that social workers did too much too soon . |