Example sentences of "too [adj] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The girl must be busy ’ , ‘ the maintenance course she had been on was probably gruelling ’ , or ‘ she was still too upset to put pen to paper ’ .
2 Too frail to give evidence in court , she described the attack in a statement .
3 Action : The filename supplied is too long to allow entry into LIFESPAN .
4 In a hurry to find me and too tired to pay attention to detail , he might give him a cursory glance and exclaim , relieved , " Ah , there you are . "
5 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 ) .
6 Programme Analysis and Review was too slow and too cumbersome to inject reason into necessity .
7 The fuse at the input to the switching circuit , rated at 10A , provides some protection , but fuses even of the fast-blow sort sometimes prove too slow to prevent damage to semiconductor devices .
8 The woman ran to a friend in college and immediately went to the Police for help … she 's now too frightened to leave college at night .
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