Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start . |
| 2 | He 'd had it too easy , Jack . |
| 3 | But perhaps he 'd left it too late . |
| 4 | ‘ You lost more in the war than we did , ’ Maxim said , and instantly felt he 'd pitched it too strong . |
| 5 | ‘ Did I tell you I 'ad to run away in the end because he got to fancy me too much ? |
| 6 | Louise now greatly regretted having made Fleury the green coat , which she feared made him too conspicuous … and it was a fact that the sepoy sharpshooters could seldom resist trying to hit this brilliant green target . |
| 7 | But by keeping him secret she had given him too much power . |
| 8 | But er there was a time , they got so If you had carried it too green , erm you er it could catch fire . |
| 9 | The officers had examined the window in Zambia 's showercub but had considered it too small for hir to escape through , the wall outside too sheer . |
| 10 | After about ten minutes of deliberation , Fabia could plainly see that there was only one place to start , and that was to put through a call to Lubor in the hope that Ven had phoned him too last night . |
| 11 | If the School 's size had made it too small to be a " full comprehensive unit " , it also caused problems in that a two-form entry of 60 boys meant that some Sixth Form courses could not be economically viable . |
| 12 | He had thought her too childish , too unspoiled . |
| 13 | It 's nice to be a man ‘ doing ’ the letters pages ; that stroppy strumpet Whiplash had had it too good for too long , but how the two-headed blue-worm of Gulonkerb turns , eh ? |
| 14 | As soon as Fosdyke had taken the pictures , she felt that she had shown him too much of her private life and put out her hand to receive them back . |
| 15 | It was as if they had found it too difficult to bridge the gap between simple experimental systems and the complexity of nature — as if the reductionism of the experimental method lost the holist qualities of the integrated complex whole that these distinguished ecologists saw in natural vegetation . |
| 16 | It had caused her too much pain . |
| 17 | Round in 67 , he was irritated only by the fact that he had left it too late to play a postal part in the election . |
| 18 | But they had left it too late . |
| 19 | He could do nothing to persuade them to join him and they had left it too late . |
| 20 | This year he was not doing so , claiming that he had left it too late to make arrangements . |
| 21 | Then he hesitated because he had left it too late and he was concerned that Tom would walk in through the door again at any minute . |
| 22 | Left under-equipped by the Martini , it had taken him too long to realise that copper vats were not now to be had ; that all the pottery stores had somehow been requisitioned ; that skilled men had been seduced away to serve elsewhere . |
| 23 | But they had kept her too long and she had n't wanted to appear rude because they were nice people , and now she was very , very late . |