Example sentences of "[verb] too [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Edgbaston , in his early days , it is hard to recall him as the skinny lad in wire spectacles who tried too hard to bowl at medium pace , and when he became depressed at his form , came out in eczema rashes and asthma wheezes . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh dear , you and your girlfriends … well , perhaps Tory could come too ? ’ she looked enquiringly at Marie , who admitted that Victoria had been considered too young to ride by her parents . |
| 3 | First , the strain of maintaining Martin Luther King 's advice to " turn the other cheek " was becoming too great to bear in the face of continued attacks and insults . |
| 4 | It means I do n't have to work too hard to get into university but I will try anyway for myself , ’ she said . |
| 5 | The report explains that because these farms are ‘ deemed too small to appear in the National Farm Business survey ’ , the government funded research into a sample of 500 holding sin 1986 and 1987 and into a sample of 1000 others between 1988 and 1989 . |
| 6 | Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ? |
| 7 | Nina was built too late to compete with other accelerators that had done most of the early work , leaving Daresbury with little else to follow up , says Irvine : ‘ It was a classic case of too little , too late . ’ |
| 8 | This lady must have been psychic or something , because in no time at all she was asking if I could enlarge necks on jumpers that other people had made too small to go over the head . |
| 9 | The issue seemed too hot to handle for Andrew Neil , Sunday Sport boss David Sullivan , Anne Robinson , Oliver Reed and Jaci Stephens , but Paul Raymond , pornographer and Soho publican replied . |
| 10 | He seemed too stunned to speak before snorting with mirth again . |
| 11 | Thank you for looking after on those really black days when even he seemed too much to cope with . |
| 12 | But the effort to combat her own sensual response seemed too much to cope with — slipping away far beyond her reach . |
| 13 | Yet it involved a principle which many could not accept : regardless of the sacrifices demanded of the rest of the community , it seemed too much to ask of the poorest of the poor . |
| 14 | Most of these patients died for reasons unrelated to their strange behaviour , and such microscopic abnormalities as might be found in the brain seemed too obscure to account for the disturbance of the mind . |
| 15 | I 've seen too many end in tears the minute we reach port . |
| 16 | How susceptible my brother would be to whatever vibes I could send out was a question I did n't like too much to think about , given the state of his head , but I had to do something . |
| 17 | Er , I 've got too much to do with my lodgers . |
| 18 | It is the way that our feelings tell us that they have got too much to cope with at the same time and they need some help — in the jargon this is called needing some ‘ ventilation ’ . |
| 19 | It may sound too banal to talk about but I have n't owned anything that merited so much fussy concern from experts since I sold my 1964 Jaguar 340 . |
| 20 | What 's more , so that you do n't have to walk too far to get from place to place , most of the nightlife is crammed into one strip no more than 400 metres long , which has bars , cafés and discos on 3 levels , just like one enormous night club with over 50 bars and dance floors . |
| 21 | Children between eight and twelve seem too young to fight against cultural racism in school ; it is as though they are almost stunned into accepting the inferiority with which white society has labelled them . |
| 22 | ‘ Our poor Luiza did n't look too happy paired with Rudi in the ball scene . ’ |
| 23 | This means that publication of excavation reports , as the Frere Report indicates ( 1975 ) , will also have to be transformed , since large pottery reports may now have become too expensive to print in the traditional manner , and may have to be available in microfiche sheets . |
| 24 | Some feel too vulnerable to cope with having boyfriends at all , at least not for some time , and almost all are determined that any man who shows an interest in them will have to accept and love their child too . |
| 25 | Hopefully Class 42XX 2-8-OT No. 4253 will not take too long to return to full working order . |
| 26 | it would take too long to go through the entire programme , which is studded with jewels , but if you can dip into it , try the two Passacaglias ( Kerll 's and Muffat 's , in D minor and G minor respectively ) , the deep and moving Allemande which opens Froberger 's Suite No. 20 ( it bears the inscription , in French , ‘ Meditation on my future death , to be played slowly and discreetly ’ ) , or his Fantasia No. 2 , which follows it here ; try too Buxtehude 's extraordinary Choral Suite Auf meinem lieben Gott ; or Weckmann 's two Toccatas … |
| 27 | If on the other hand you frequently send out stories which will be of interest to quite a wide selection of the media it will take too long to go through a large directory and jot down the names every time . |
| 28 | ‘ If anything goes wrong , sir , I do n't think we 'll be having too much to say to each other when we 're in vaporized orbit . ’ |
| 29 | In our defence programmes generally we are doing too much to guard against the least likely risk , viz. the risk of a major war ; and we are spending too much on forces of types which are no longer of primary importance . |
| 30 | Unfortunately such systems have proved too hard to use for non-experts and too inflexible to support learning rather than training . |