Example sentences of "be too [adj] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | You think you 're too big to get a beating ? |
| 2 | Most of them are probably muttering , ‘ I 'm too busy to get involved in this sort of thing . |
| 3 | ‘ Anyway , I 'm too fat to get married . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ That 's fine on the food — I 'll buy the drinks , I 'm too old to get used to women buying my drinks . ’ |
| 5 | I said , I think I 'm too qualified to get a job ! |
| 6 | It might not be too late to get a direct order through to Kirov on the radio . |
| 7 | By that time it may be too late to get into the market place with the product . |
| 8 | Would it be too presumptuous to get a bottle out ? |
| 9 | After the lecture there were tea and refreshments and it was not until fairly late that I rang Emily just to say Hello , and how sorry I was to be too busy to get over to the house to see her this trip . |
| 10 | Once I can make a hole through them it should n't be too difficult to get round into the outer cellar . |
| 11 | If you know the right people it should n't be too hard to get rid of birds like mine . ’ |
| 12 | Being too drunk to get yourself home safely , sleeping wherever there 's a bed — no matter whose it happens to be … ’ |
| 13 | Eyes looking back and I 'd got the old bit moving all the time keeping , he said righto get out , you 're leading me , they were too pleased to get rid of them . |
| 14 | Not only did the street fill with sirens and blue lights like an episode of Kojak , the cops that piled up the stairs were too fat to get through the attic space and pursue the men . |
| 15 | The method was to feed the snails on milk until they were too fat to get back into their shells , then fry them . |
| 16 | It is surprisingly difficult to recognise an overshooting situation until often it is too late to get down without sideslipping and using full airbrake . |
| 17 | His opportunity comes when a lone housewife is murdered by a psychopath and shortly after he himself catches " flue and reckons he can trick the doctor into giving him an alibi that he is too ill to get out of bed . |
| 18 | It 's too late to get anything else . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm a single parent , and I blame myself for the way he is — but I feel it 's too late to get through to him now as talking or reasoning does n't work . |
| 20 | ‘ The time factor ; it 's too late to get married today , but the honeymoon does n't have to wait , does it ? ’ she said , a faint colour stealing into her face as he swung her into his arms . |
| 21 | RICHARD : It 's too easy to get bogged down in the study of classifications . |
| 22 | But it 's too early to get carried away and we must and we always have had our feet on the ground and erm we will do that . |
| 23 | Erm , but still getting , but we maybe getting a broader front on either focus too narrow a beam , sometimes it 's too difficult to get that narrow boat to be on exactly the right spot . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps he 's too ill to get to a telephone , ’ said Mervyn in a satisfied tone-'that 's what it is . ’ |
| 25 | He 's too scared to get in another relationship but |
| 26 | In a van , estate car or large hatchback it 's okay , but it 's too big to get into even a large saloon without a lot of hassle . |
| 27 | There was nothing for me to do , I was too young to get a work permit , and mum was determined we were n't going to start breaking the law the minute we 'd got there , so she called Auntie Muriel and Auntie Muriel said why not . |
| 28 | You 'd tell me I was too young to get engaged to anyone . |
| 29 | When they finally found me it was too late to get me out , because everything stops at 5.00pm the day before the Parade . |
| 30 | By then it was too late to get the room and I walked back to the spot where I had committed the robbery . |