Example sentences of "too [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She is too polite to bore us with a travelogue . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ To be honest , I 'm a bit tired of being described just as a jazz singer or with words like ‘ abstract ’ , ’ she says , responding to reviews that have tried a little too hard to distance her from the rave scene she still feels so much a part of . |
| 3 | Claudia accepted his arm round her shoulders as inevitable ; she was far too tired to fight him at the moment . |
| 4 | Too late to get him in the team , though . ’ |
| 5 | She was too honest to deceive him and too prudent to exchange him for a lover whose interest would probably not last very long . |
| 6 | I would find it too distracting to have you around the place , knowing you felt the way you evidently do about me … that is , ’ his tone changed , ‘ how much you abhor my touch . ’ |
| 7 | No , too fanciful to consider him in the role of murderer . |
| 8 | He did not know what to do with it , Hailsham being far too busy to read it at the time . |
| 9 | If the hon. Member for Leicester , South ( Mr. Marshall ) would like to accompany me in the new year , I should be only too happy to take him on a tour and show him just how much is happening outside Belfast as well as in it . |
| 10 | The politicians , army officers , civil servants and government officials all descended and Aarau , of course , was too small to accommodate them in the style to which they were accustomed . |
| 11 | PETER WINTERBOTTOM , once rated too small to make it by the Springboks , broke their ranks , hearts and spirit at Twickenham . |
| 12 | But do n't worry , precious as Moorlake is to me , it would be taking things too far to marry you for the sake of making it whole again . " |
| 13 | So it 's not too ridiculous to compare them to a cross between Marc Almond , Nick Cave and The Chameleons . |
| 14 | But I was , I was a bit too young to turn it into a shag palace . |
| 15 | ‘ I myself was much too young to question it at the time , but I found out later that there was a good deal of mystery surrounding his death . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ TV highlights the unsavoury incidents , they are far too ready to put them on the screen . |