Example sentences of "[noun] too many " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year we got caught on the break too many times … this year we have the pace/organisation to deal with that … and Lukic is nt bad at 1 on 1 's … |
| 2 | She had heard those words too many times before to be impressed by them . |
| 3 | But Stuttgart had those four non-nationals on the pitch in the last seven minutes , one outsider too many . |
| 4 | Four months later , on 2 February 1979 , Sid Vicious finally shot one red light too many , dying from a drugs overdose , naked — so the popular press reported — and in the arms of his latest girlfriend . |
| 5 | Just a few more vegetables or a bouillon cube , ’ he turned to Penelope , smiling , ‘ and sometimes a great deal too many potatoes . ’ |
| 6 | Think Ed took out one club too many there did n't he ? |
| 7 | She knew what was to come ; she had seen that look in her friend 's eyes too many times these past few months . |
| 8 | UNITED STATES Too many pennies spent on shuttle |
| 9 | ROLLERSKATE SKINNY sound like hyperactive urchins who 've had one bottle of Strongbow too many and been let loose in the local guitar shop . |
| 10 | It 's a pity too many people stop making an effort after they 've got married . |
| 11 | Those who saw her last television programme , A Winter Too Many , will remember the extremely poignant sequence — and the tears — when she said farewell to her ‘ family ’ , the beloved beasts , as they wended their way down the road from Low Birk Hatt to new ownership , led by the senior cow — ‘ Rosa , my lovely Rosa ’ — who had given Hannah the only available warm drink , her milk , and acted as a radiator when the power failed at Low Birk Hatt during the last savage winter . |
| 12 | Nor have I been able to watch A Winter Too Many . |
| 13 | ‘ A Winter Too Many ’ was the elegiac end of a besieged life … the enthralling thing about Hannah , when Barry Cockcroft made that first documentary , ‘ Too Long A Winter ’ , was not the things she managed without : warmth , water , company , money . |
| 14 | Vietnam 's withdrawal is the best opportunity he will have to lead his country once more , but he may botch it by taking one political twist too many . |
| 15 | In calculating the number of 17p stamps which could be bought for El , a few pupils used knowledge gained from playing darts : treble 17 was known to be 51 and 51p doubled was 102 , making one 17p too many . |
| 16 | His once trim body has fallen victim to one fundraising lunch too many but he still looks very much the explorer with his classic square jaw and steely blue eyes . |
| 17 | ‘ But I did n't leave it there , because Dysart had had one lucky escape too many for my liking . |
| 18 | But after one fall too many , he went to the doctor and found out the truth . |
| 19 | ‘ One failure too many , perhaps ? ’ |
| 20 | Happily these two cheated one town too many , and in our last glimpse of them they are tarred and feathered ! |
| 21 | I HAD A GOTTLE OF GEER TOO MANY SAYS VENTRILOQUIST |
| 22 | One body too many . |
| 23 | Finally they took on one opponent too many , receiving a resounding defeat at the hands of the Mamluks at Ain Jallud in 1260 . |
| 24 | His father suspected that he had a glass of wine too many at dinner . |
| 25 | But with 6ft 4ins Stich firing on all cylinders , and Chang looking jaded it was one Goliath too many for the brave American . |
| 26 | Jack had obviously had one pint too many of Sussex Devil because his swing was not quite as smooth and slow as usual . |
| 27 | On top of EastEnders , Coronation Street and Neighbours , it was just one soap too many . |
| 28 | One day you might take out a screw too many and the world will fall apart . ’ |
| 29 | VENTRILOQUIST Mike Dennett had a drink too many after he got fed up with listening to his wife Gladys . |
| 30 | At one time the abbot 's vineyards stretched all the way to the River Severn , from beneath the castle walls where 98 corpses hung after the siege of Shrewsbury described in One Corpse Too Many . |