Example sentences of "they [vb base] too [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Does n't mix , and spends most of his time in Vienna on business , none of them seem too sure what . |
| 2 | She joked : ‘ I get on well with all the guys , but if any of them get too frisky I can always use my army self-defence training to sort them out . ’ |
| 3 | of them get too snooty in a way . |
| 4 | Yet while she had no intention of surrendering her home it would be foolish to let the atmosphere between them become too acrimonious . |
| 5 | The Government 's own dietary surveys of British school children show that they eat too many crisps , chips , biscuits and chocolates and very little fresh food . |
| 6 | ‘ Your family are just English pigs — they eat too much ! |
| 7 | ‘ The only reason people are fat , ’ he went on , ‘ is because they eat too much . |
| 8 | ‘ Now they eat too much . |
| 9 | they make too much fuss of him and they bring him back |
| 10 | about the birds , you know , because they make too much noise . |
| 11 | We can only presume they mean too BUSY |
| 12 | One or two need to be kept on the cool side , otherwise they grow too fast and weaken themselves so badly that they die . |
| 13 | Criticism of the retraining schemes is often that they train people for jobs that are not always available to them and they expect too much mobility from people who have further reasons , in their disability , for being reluctant to move from their familiar surroundings . |
| 14 | The meaning of such affinities is obscure , but they appear too regular to be just coincidental . |
| 15 | They say too many of our telephones have been captured , you never know who you might be talking to at the other end . ’ |
| 16 | I have heard many anglers say that they dislike swimfeeders because they cause too much disturbance when they hit the surface , but I reckon this disturbance becomes part of the attraction once the barbel have associated the splash with food . |
| 17 | What most will also admit , once their anger has subsided , is that they put too much faith in the franchisor 's ambitious figures . |
| 18 | They put too much make-up on me , so I 've decided to do it myself . |
| 19 | So had they put too high a sort of level for subsistence ? |
| 20 | The value of such catalogs is that they prevent too parochial a view of the scientific effort . |
| 21 | The audit liability crisis : they protest too much ! |
| 22 | No , when they speak too loud . |
| 23 | When they speak too loud down the telephone . |
| 24 | They bend too much to the left . |
| 25 | They bend too much to the right . |
| 26 | If they bend too much , the bee responds by moving its wings less strongly and so maintains an optimum speed . |
| 27 | Virgin will not pull it off if they add too much capacity in too many routes in a very short period of time , because filling capacity is becoming increasingly difficult . |
| 28 | Examples of teaching practice are rejected because they seem too remote from the trainees ' own situation : " Yes but … my students would never ( work in pairs/bring things to class/respond to a video screen . ) " |
| 29 | At first they seem too creased to give the butterfly any chance of survival . |
| 30 | They look too much to the past , and have an undue reliance on the words and works of their master Aristotle . |