Example sentences of "he [verb] too [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his interviews , he plays too much off the back foot , letting the Dimblebys and Waldens bully him . |
| 2 | He also availed himself of some relationship to Monck , but he presumed too much on his use of the name of Henry Bennet , Earl of Arlington [ q.v. ] , to cover his own corrupt financial transactions and was committed to the Fleet prison , from which he was released after pleading ‘ nine small lamenting children ’ . |
| 3 | He drinks too much , damn fool that he is . ’ |
| 4 | Sometimes he drinks too much beer and goes to sleep in the toilet . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He did , once , but he threw them out of his house ; he thought he wasted too much time telling his two youngest sons bed-time stories . ’ |
| 6 | When he got too much praise in training , Probyn said : ‘ I knew they were going to try someone else . ’ |
| 7 | He thinks too much . |
| 8 | If he has too many bad experiences with other children , it may put him off social interaction . |
| 9 | Whether I am police or not , he has too much to lose . |
| 10 | and on Joe 's visit to London he realises that he is not really appreciated and leaves as he has too much dignity . |
| 11 | Quinn will work himself into the right mood for the game by listening to tapes of his favourite Beatles music beforehand — not that he needs too much extra motivation . |
| 12 | He surrenders too much of his authority , and is diminished thereby . |
| 13 | He is suspicious not because Read uses too much anthropological material , but because he uses too little . |
| 14 | He eats too much too quickly . |
| 15 | But in private he affected too much modesty , and before 1922 had been junior to too many of them . |
| 16 | He imbibed too much , too often and too frequently and , when in his cups , was included to brag and boast . |
| 17 | Thank you for looking after on those really black days when even he seemed too much to cope with . |
| 18 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 19 | He noticed too that , in the space of twenty minutes , Wheeler seemed to have changed his tack entirely about informing the police . |
| 20 | The man was not as tall as he had been in the photograph , he stooped too much , but he was still a few inches taller than his wife . |
| 21 | He condemns too much . |
| 22 | But he borrowed too much money from the banks . |
| 23 | Hamdi Ali Abdel-Wahab al-Banbi , hitherto chairman of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation ( EGPC ) , took over as Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister from the long-serving Abdul Hadi Mohammed Qandil , whose dismissal had been widely predicted following criticism from foreign companies that he paid too little attention to exploration and production . |
| 24 | My father feared my mother as much as I did and wished me to please and agree with her always , for when I did not she would complain to him of my behaviour and I suspected that when this happened his new wife would complain in her turn that he paid too much attention to us and too little to her and her own children . |
| 25 | His major problem is that he misses taking his medicine , and he travels too much . |
| 26 | Davie Cooper , the Rangers and Motherwell winger once told the press he was a bad example for young players to follow : he spent too much time in the bookies . |
| 27 | Some teachers identified an increase in paperwork and one felt that he spent too much time trying to raise the money for new projects from sources outside school before the head took the request for funding seriously . |
| 28 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 29 | She recognised that her son had not always been as attentive as expected towards his wife or the children and that he spent too much time with friends like Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 30 | The fair hair had faded to a dusty grey , and his skin looked pale and unhealthy , as if he spent too much time indoors , but the green eyes were lusty with life and rebellion against the confines of the wheelchair he was manoeuvring into the room — |