Example sentences of "was too [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 13-YEAR-OLD girl who wants to leave foster care and return home to her father was told by a High Court judge yesterday she was too young to decide her own future . |
| 2 | I was too young to exercise my intellectual force to demolish prejudices that made me sick . |
| 3 | There might have been twenty or thirty figures in there , but it was too dark to distinguish anything more than their vague shapes . |
| 4 | This alarming error had been spotted by his Deputy when it was too late to do anything much about it . |
| 5 | Although Mr Patten said it was too early to discuss his political future , the Tories are now expected to find a safe seat in which the sitting member can be persuaded to make way for his early return to Westminster . |
| 6 | Her nose was too small to balance her high flat cheekbones , and her mouth was made for a face at least two sizes larger . |
| 7 | Mr Tholen is a man who can not resist a challenge and when , just before his 50th birthday , he was told he was too old to learn anything new , he set out to prove that theory wrong by learning to fly . |
| 8 | Except for Robin , who had a slight talent for painting , they were plodders , who would never make a mark on the world ; and even Robin was too unsteady to forge his own way . |
| 9 | She was too busy holding her aching face and she gave a soft murmur of pain as she drew her dressing-gown closely around her . |
| 10 | One umpire was up the other end , the other was too busy controlling his refractory pony to watch what Randy was up to . |
| 11 | Sometimes he was too sick to eat anything all day , but other days he would sleep for a while and then get up for a meal . |