Example sentences of "too [det] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rough Trade thought that recent press attention for James plus a brilliant performance on Whistle Test was stealing a little too much away from the headline act . |
| 2 | But Mike was hurting too much already from the blow that had split his nose ; he 'd never been hit that hard . |
| 3 | When he started boxing with both paws it was too much even for the basset . |
| 4 | That was sometimes too much even for the equally outrageous Orton , who partly envied the relationship Ken had with his mother — he knew he could n't talk to his own parent that way — and was partly disgusted by it , to the point of wanting to change the subject from sexual organs and sexual intercourse to something more inane . |
| 5 | This last award was too much even for the Court of Appeal ( which has an aversion to interfering with jury awards ) to countenance . |
| 6 | The contrast between nature and architecture here was too much indeed for the ungenerous Hippolyte Taine , who came here on his Journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century and wrote that ‘ One finds it grotesque that a bit of hot water should have brought cuisine and civilization into these declivities . ’ |