Example sentences of "be too [adj] to talk " in BNC.

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1 You 're too young to talk like that .
2 This is the second year in a row that the Opposition leader has claimed to be too busy to talk to the boisterous crew .
3 When the issue has not been discussed because it is felt to be too painful to talk about or because it is considered an unsuitable topic of conversation , then there may be problems .
4 They were too shocked to talk … but the cards said it all .
5 Sharon 's parents were too shocked to talk about their daughter , but issued a statement through an uncle .
6 Do you think you were too young to talk about the th the emotional side
7 Now he was saying that although we were too young to talk of real love he hoped we would see each other alone and not always surrounded by friends .
8 Her parents were too upset to talk .
9 Twenty eight ( 12% ) of those in the not breathless category , 197 ( 23% ) of those who were moderately breathless , 217 ( 54% ) of those who were breathless and distressed , and 27 ( 82% ) of those who were too breathless to talk were given nebulised bronchodilators .
10 Many of the prisoners to whom ITN spoke were too scared to talk in front of the TV cameras .
11 The couple , who live in the north of the city , were too embarrassed to talk about the missing nestegg .
12 The couple were too distressed to talk about daughters Becky and Emma , but issued a statement .
13 Asia Watch , however , makes the point that workers and intellectuals were the real target of the authorities ' retribution after the 1989 protests , and says it is too early to talk of a more liberal approach until many more of those prisoners are released .
14 If the child does not know or is too shy to talk a suggestion that ‘ Perhaps mum or dad can remind you ? ’ and encouraging the parents to talk is one way around the problem .
15 People are showing me great compassion and I appreciate it … but it is too awful to talk about .
16 Bottom line , it is too premature to talk about DME losing market , ‘ What alternative do they have , ’ Gossels said .
17 Mr de Klerk 's people say the Congress is dragging its feet because it is too disorganised to talk .
18 If it is too difficult to talk to people you know , you could contact a helpline first .
19 He retorted : ‘ He 's entitled to his opinion , but I do n't share it and It 's too premature to talk about anyone being certainties , or anyone being out of the running , especially with this group developing so closely . ’
20 ‘ Of course he 's entitled to his opinion , but I do n't share it and it 's too premature to talk about anyone being certainties , or anyone being out of the running . ’
21 Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally .
22 It 's too young to talk . ’
23 You may have heard talk of retaliation but it 's too early to talk about that , ’ says a spokesman .
24 His father had been too upset to talk to Darren about it and he had been sent to stay with an aunt that he did not know very well .
25 I am too upset to talk . ’
26 The result : a burgeoning young generation of 100,000 hard-core otaku who are too uptight to talk to a telephone operator but who can kick ass on the keyboard of a PC .
27 On the first few dates or longer , some young couples are too embarrassed to talk about it , let alone go and do anything about it , and girls do n't want to be seen as anticipating sex and run the risk of being labelled as slags .
28 Robert 's wife Jeannette , 56 , was too upset to talk .
29 Evidence of identification was given by the college chaplain who said he was too upset to talk about the death .
30 Mrs Duncan , who now lives in Bryn Rhydd , Ruthin , was too upset to talk yesterday .
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