Example sentences of "too [adj] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would n't thieve he would n't he was too timid to do anything like that . |
| 2 | If she was really too old to cure herself of facetious thoughts , at least she could bite them back from the tip of her tongue . |
| 3 | I was too agitated to notice anything like that at the time . ’ |
| 4 | But if it has that civil capability it is all too easy to turn it to less than peaceful purposes . |
| 5 | So it 's too dark to see anything at all in fact . |
| 6 | Indeed , she walked so far and so long that she was too tired to write anything at all upon her return and did not in fact send a reply until the following day . |
| 7 | There his family , like all those in the village , had been too poor to eat anything but black bread , and so bagels , baked with expensive white flour , were the rarest of luxuries . |
| 8 | By this time it is already too late to do anything about Mavic Chen , as the three are accidentally transported to the world of Mira by cellular projection . |
| 9 | And while other girls in a similar position might dream of actually being in his arms one day , Belinda was far too level-headed to fool herself in such a way . |
| 10 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |
| 11 | The traditional one is that both the Conservative Party and government were in decline in the late 1920s and that the party leaders were ‘ too supine to do anything about this loss of prestige . ’ |
| 12 | Drunk certainly , thank God — too drunk to suffer anything but minor guilt pangs , extremely muted and infrequent . |
| 13 | Certainly , the Opposition will be only too pleased to support him in that respect . |
| 14 | When she went out later she was too annoyed to do anything at all but roam around fuming . |
| 15 | I was too young to know anything of sexual images , but I used to imagine all the local ladies tied to trees . ’ |