Example sentences of "[was/were] too [adj] to see " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lingered too long in Livadià on the way , by the charming waters of memory and forgetfulness , and were too late to see the sports at Arákhova , with the very old men running to win a lamb as a prize . |
| 2 | ‘ You were too blinkered to see . |
| 3 | They were too faint to see properly , and gone as soon as seen . |
| 4 | The whiskers were too small to see with the naked eye and nobody could possibly make a testing machine on that scale . |
| 5 | She did n't belong here , but they were too self-involved to see it . |
| 6 | I gather you were too busy to see Heather Allenby . ’ |
| 7 | — Only you were too thick to see it . |
| 8 | Someone fired a shot but the trees were too thick to see properly and the boars ran out of the forest on to the open plateau above . |
| 9 | Now they were too high to see the great waves of the southern Atlantic carry the whales on their singing pilgrimages . |
| 10 | Oh , well , I made a detour through the Wicklow Mountains — but the hedges were too high to see much , and I had a quick look at the site of the Battle of the Boyne . |
| 11 | Even when it was too dark to see anything reflected there , the suggestion of movement within the tainted glass gave added weight to the boy 's night-time fears . |
| 12 | It was too dark to see the line , and Trent called to the man on the rod to keep it pointing at the Zodiac . |
| 13 | It was too dark to see her expression , whether it was sleepy or distressed . |
| 14 | He had a pile of comics there which he read until it was too dark to see . |
| 15 | It was too dark to see what lay behind it but we came to a corner where a tall wooden tower rose suddenly towards the stars . |
| 16 | The curtains rustled softly , but it was too dark to see unnatural shapes and shadows ; instead , they crowded her mind . |
| 17 | It was too dark to see anything and I wondered whether to call out . |
| 18 | Hurricanes subsequently searched until it was too dark to see , but no sign of the missing Auger could be found . |
| 19 | I finished painting when it was too dark to see and later , in the nearest pub , I asked myself why I find water the most satisfying of all foregrounds. what follows gives some of the answers . |
| 20 | It was too dark to see much . |
| 21 | It was too dark to see what the thing was . |
| 22 | It was too dark to see much of the cottage when she did finally arrive , and , in any case , getting soaked as she lifted her belongings out of the boot did not encourage her to spend time looking around . |
| 23 | Beneath the trees where they stood it was too dark to see much , but Isabel could feel the tension in fitzAlan 's body and knew his arm must be hurting terribly . |
| 24 | When it was too dark to see , they came in , grimly satisfied . |
| 25 | It was too dark to see his expression , but Virginia had no doubt it would be the same mocking smile . |
| 26 | The FR.4 was too late to see service in World War Two , and of the 160 built , 120 were delivered to the FAA and forty to the Royal Netherlands Naval Air Service ( RNNAS ) . |
| 27 | She caught sight of a movement out of the corner of her eye , whirled , but was too late to see anything . |
| 28 | He was staring at the glove box now , he was too low to see out of the window . |
| 29 | For a start , he was driving far too fast , had only just swerved in time to avoid a cyclist , and was now desperately trying to overtake a pale blue Renault , when it was obvious there was n't room , and the road ahead was too winding to see if it was clear . |
| 30 | But when I recall her attitude over this house I ca n't help wondering if that hardness has always been in her , and I was too dumb to see it . ’ |