Example sentences of "too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been dating a wonderful chick for two years now but she 's just too frigid , sex is out of the question so one night I masturbated and pulled too hard on the sensitive part of my penis , now the tissues around the foreskin are swollen and septic but I 'm too distressed and embarrassed to see a doctor and my f girlfriend wants nothing to do with me , I find it hard to urinate what can I do ? |
| 2 | Women seem fearful of becoming too friendly with a single mother ; fearful that if they spend too much time with her , they might just get a taste for something that is denied them . |
| 3 | Some think the agencies ' analysts risk becoming too friendly with the companies they rate . |
| 4 | Nor was it too friendly , a fact duly noted by the flag-waving touch judge . |
| 5 | The supper had been too good , the weather was too pleasant and the company too friendly to worry about newspaper stories . |
| 6 | They were stupid , narrow-minded , and — worst of all — much too friendly , in a patronizing way ; but Breeze would n't let herself feel annoyed . |
| 7 | Maybe I 'm being unkind , but they were n't too friendly , did n't shout out ‘ Haway , come on … thou might as well join us , ’ as one would have wished . |
| 8 | There were those who felt that Chadwick was too friendly with Kriminalrat Boemmelburg and his cohorts but , as Nicholas Winton points out , there were no advantages in antagonising the Germans . |
| 9 | Interviewers have to strike a careful balance between establishing the kind of relationship with respondents that will encourage them to be frank and truthful , and avoiding becoming too friendly so that respondents try hard to please . |
| 10 | She found them too friendly and too knowing . |
| 11 | In the first movement of No. 99 , for example , the cumulative tension of the development is not quite realized — rhythms are a touch too easygoing , the offbeat sf accents too friendly . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll tell you what 's going on , mate , ’ he said , slapping a none too friendly arm around the other 's shoulders . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's too friendly with the crew . ’ |
| 14 | She has had to give in over the question of chrome : and the Foreign Minister , who never struck me as being too friendly towards us , failed to get away ( as he apparently hoped ) with letting armed German ships through the Straits . |
| 15 | Far too friendly . |
| 16 | Their expression was guarded and none too friendly , and the response to Melissa 's question was a jerk of the head that plainly said , ‘ What if I am ? ’ |
| 17 | When I started meeting people , even previous to the job I was in , right ? er you tend to get too too friendly and not keep it on a on a business basis like . |
| 18 | Now do n't forget , that I said , that in spite of the fact that he 'd got one shoulder higher than the other , he was very attractive to women , and there is running through this story , the suggestion that maybe he was too friendly with Josephine . |
| 19 | Erm , and perhaps because he was becoming too friendly with Josephine , he was sent to Spain by Bonaparte , but then he fell out with Bonaparte , and Bonaparte fell out with him , and he was put under surveillance by the erm , the President , and erm , it makes you wonder what really went wrong . |
| 20 | If you 're on too friendly terms with him , you may be in danger of not doing your job properly as a governor , because it can be quite difficult to stand back from somebody in an objective way when you know them too well or are too closely involved with them . |
| 21 | Underlying these changes is the by now all too usual crisis in public funding . |
| 22 | The opening Allegro assai is light and airy and would raise a few eyebrows even in the style-conscious 1990s , but the following movements are respectively too sleepy , too hearty and too metallic for comfort . |
| 23 | We are concerned that the general exemption covering the publication of information volunteered to public bodies is too far-reaching and undermines the principle that all information on the environment should be disclosed except in certain tightly defined situations . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know where my next penny is coming from , I really do n't , ’ she would breathe in her flat , light voice , as she sat hunched on the river bank , too hapless for despair , while our children played together among the drifting garbage at the water 's edge . |
| 25 | He would really have liked me to do medicine , but I showed no interest in biology , which seemed to me to be too descriptive and not sufficiently fundamental . |
| 26 | Neither names are registered as a trade mark ; in fact the names would be refused registration because they are too descriptive of computer retailing generally and would make it difficult for other traders to describe their business activities . |
| 27 | Tha , that 's too descriptive . |
| 28 | Jefferson criticized the Virginia constitution for being too unified , with all the power concentrated in the legislature . |
| 29 | That structure need not be rigid or too formalised but it must be clear and known to those in the firm . |
| 30 | Against that , the competition at Rutland Water thought it typically French : too stable and underpowered . |