Example sentences of "she [vb past] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She read too much newsprint , perhaps . |
| 2 | A Finn represented the fusion of Scandinavia and Hungary ( to which country they were first cousins ) so no doubt she expected too much of Erkki . |
| 3 | He did n't like her energy and her enthusiasm ; she made too much noise in his life . |
| 4 | By now Artemis was quite helpless with laughter , and had to put her napkin to her face in case she made too much noise . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not married ! ’ she retorted , and for a few moments as her world righted itself and she realised that she must have momentarily got her wires crossed , because he had already told her he was not married , she realised too that , up until a moment ago , he must have thought her — Mrs Barnaby Stewart . |
| 6 | But she got too old eventually and so did Dick and Snip , so we had to send them away . |
| 7 | For the time being she was useful to annoy Gina , but if she got too possessive he would have to drop her . |
| 8 | In fact , if she got too insistent , he might agree to an engagement on … say , February seventh , Miranda 's twenty-eighth birthday . |
| 9 | I did n't bother with a changing table , but we bought a new cupboard for Rachel 's room and I changed her on top of that until she got too big . |
| 10 | His inability to rid himself of the woman is a recurrent theme , even though a psychoanalytic institute in the US ( where for some reason another analyst has written a book which presents the patient as a great therapeutic success ) actually sent him money regularly so that he could pay her off when she got too demanding . |
| 11 | But your mother she 'ad too many bébés . |
| 12 | Alone once more , she walked and walked , and when she became too hot to carry on , she swam again and dried herself in the sun . |
| 13 | As some girls suddenly look too tall to be ballet dancers , she became too large for her father 's devotion , for Haverford always preferred smallish women with what he had once described in one of his more personal ‘ Jottings ’ as the ‘ tip-tilted noses of impertinent page-boys ’ . |
| 14 | When she became too ill and breathless to come to the surgery , I visited her once a week . |
| 15 | She had to give it up when she became too sick . |
| 16 | It was a very sad day when she became too old , ill and weak to carry on , but Rosa replaced her in my affections . |
| 17 | In her nervousness she used too much force , and her hand , released by the tearing of paper , flung out and knocked over the wine . |
| 18 | She drew too much water , and the Bahamas , for the most part , are a shallow bank dotted with ripsaw coral heads and treacherous shoals where flat-bottomed boats might glide in comparative safety , but where a deep-keeled schooner was forced to creep with painful care . |
| 19 | ‘ She was sick because she ate too much . |
| 20 | Ronni was aware of that stiffness about him again , and suddenly she noticed too that , like herself , he had a slightly hollow look about the eyes . |
| 21 | In an odd way she seemed too solid , too highly coloured . |
| 22 | But not that curious ; she seemed too tired to be very interested . |
| 23 | She rubbed at herself inneffectually and he had an impulse to do it for her ; if Oliver had been with them , he would have dried them both , enjoying the feel of their lively , vigorous little bodies , but on her own , without Oliver , she seemed too grown-up , not a child any more . |
| 24 | She seemed too happy . |
| 25 | She arrived too late for the actual ceremony , so another took place two days later , on Palm Sunday , when she placed a gold circlet on the head of King Robert I. |
| 26 | As one of them said on being asked if she ever felt that she spent too much time on her own in the daytime : |
| 27 | Besides , a refusal would seem as if she placed too much importance on an accepted practice . |
| 28 | So he thought she talked too much , did he ? |
| 29 | To Agnes 's mind she laughed too much . |
| 30 | She took too much notice of his comings and goings and her sharp words pierced his skin ( not as thick as she supposed ) through to the heart . |