Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] too [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well to be honest I got too many bloody windows up there ! |
| 2 | I assumed too much . |
| 3 | I ate too much and drank nearly three-quarters of the bottle . |
| 4 | The last party I went to , I ate too much jelly and was sick during pass the parcel . ’ |
| 5 | I ate too much I think . |
| 6 | I spent too many hours with my friends in a rather dingy salon in , I think , Marshall Street . |
| 7 | ‘ It was too easy to let the mind wander and I spent too much time looking at the leaderboards instead of concentrating on my own game . |
| 8 | I cooked too much . |
| 9 | ‘ Cool it ’ said Mr Bob Cheek , Chief ARP man , ‘ I heard too much noise from the road . ’ |
| 10 | Others in the group argued that up to a point all those things were right , but that often a subject was complex , often it could be constructive for everyone to have a chairperson who would guide discussion , not control it , who would be able to be supportive when someone talked too much or too little . |
| 11 | ‘ Godfrey did n't like it if I talked too much . |
| 12 | ‘ It would just go on my record that maybe I talked too much . |
| 13 | I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't . |
| 14 | If I talked too much at first or laughed at something , it broke the spell and everyone would start talking to me . |
| 15 | While I was always told I talked too much , Alec was quiet . |
| 16 | Later I found that Mains did not want me watching his team train ‘ because I knew too much about rugby ’ and would tell the opposition of his plans . |
| 17 | And because I knew too much . |
| 18 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 19 | I knew , of course , that one or other of the suore kept a constant eye on how we behaved , and I knew too that had they noticed anything ‘ unusual ’ I would have been given a severe talking-to and told not to come back . |
| 20 | He said I saw too much ! |
| 21 | Frankly , dear Lily , I saw too many of them last year … ’ |
| 22 | Katia starts to talk about the special projects which they are planning in Japan , and groans about management with no sense of fun — ‘ Who 's that guy we met , Marielle ? — the big pompous one , who complained that I sang too much ? ’ |
| 23 | In a talk with the Prime Minister this morning he asked whether I thought too much time of Ministers was taken up by Committees and whether there were too many Committees . |
| 24 | But my education made things harder for me as a soldier , paradoxically , for I thought too much and questioned the wisdom of those in command . |
| 25 | However , I thought too much excitement was not good for him , so I talked of other things , and made him laugh a little . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I listened too much to Dad and as a result let myself down . ’ |
| 27 | I took too many risks putting on the wig and beret and changing my shoes . |
| 28 | I took too many . |
| 29 | I mean I did n't take a lot with me , I mean I took too much as it was and my arm carrying it across the Underground . |
| 30 | An ex-agent of mine told me I had the wrong attitude to charity shows ; I did too many . |