Sentence examples for a touch too far from inspiring English sources

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That would stretch your credibility, and Cherie's stomach, a touch too far.

1.48pm: Bendtner feeds Walcott who chips a cross to Adebayor but Lescott is there and clears easily back to his keeper 1.51pm: Gilberto launches himself at a cross into the area but it's a touch too far ahead of him.

Then he leaned a touch too far forward, the calf changed directions and kicked up its back legs, and just like that the boy was tumbling through the air.

It's also admirably even-handed in its attitude to both sex and the sexes, though occasionally things stray a touch too far into Carry On territory with Karma Sutras, bouncing bedsprings and the like.

The options include building from scratch in the "Olympicopolis" cultural quarter planned for the site where the bulk of the London 2012 Olympics were held, and while that is handy for the A12, it may be a touch too far east for the core LSO audience.

For medical practitioners like Edwina Wright, this wait might be a touch too far.

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The use of tumblers as wine glasses is a rustic touch too far, and a few of the servers behave in a distracted manner, their aloofness recognizable from other restaurants with crowds at their doors.

That sweetbread dish, say, had the tongue-fizzing, metallic tang you get from only the freshest offal, plus a bosky ragout offset by the crunch of a panko'd egg that oozed daringly soft-cooked white and golden yolk; the vaguely mushroomy foam that topped the lot, though, was a fussy touch too far.

But Hardy's shades were one stylistic touch too far.

Robben also set up Bayern's first goal, in the 60th minute, by dribbling to the end line — seemingly one touch too far — before crossing to the Croatian striker Mario Mandzukic.

A touch too triumphalist?

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