Example sentences of "[verb] too [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after these peoples , others had come : now and then , Davide passed , in a clearing in the grove , a stone hut , white and conical in shape , like the turbans of the Saracens who were overlords here long ago and who built these shelters for summer days when the heat in the grove swelled too burstingly to bear . |
| 2 | Her hands trembled too badly to cook and she sweated as if in the tropics . |
| 3 | Things were happening too fast to keep up with . |
| 4 | And that would be that : thousands of years of generation succeeding generation , unable to learn from the experience of the past and dying too soon to benefit from the present . |
| 5 | He had released her from his embrace , his hands merely holding her by the upper arms , and she sagged against him , trembling too violently to stand unaided , her knees buckling . |
| 6 | Comments on the Green Paper have been requested by 14 January 1994 and it is at the time of writing too soon to predict what the ultimate shape of the implementing legislation will be . |
| 7 | But if we react too strongly to fear , the brake is applied so hard that we come to a standstill , and fail to grow — which means a wasted lifetime . |
| 8 | This system has inherent dangers , as forced rye-grass can grow too quickly to take up important minerals , particularly magnesium , and overdoses of some elements can lock up others in a form not available to plants . |
| 9 | Statements by officials , including some made by ministers in Parliament , have been used too often to mislead in connection with Ulster affairs . |
| 10 | They stimulate vigorous competitive root growth near the surface and can force plants to grow too quickly to take up their full needs of other nutrients . |
| 11 | It was a cold and wet morning , but Lee Abbs and Leoma Needham were going too slowly to need wet tyres on their roller skates . |
| 12 | We were going too fast to see any details of the moored vessels so I just snapped a random photograph and , at the very same instant , the Maggot swore and banked and rammed the throttles hard forward . |
| 13 | She scrabbled away unbalanced , going too fast to stand up . |
| 14 | Any present-day fan will be familiar with the Botham story , for it has been told too often to need repeating . |
| 15 | You are very alive , very active … you just travel too fast to see the end result . |
| 16 | During the temperature and pressure increases through burial and during migration of pore waters , many previously-stable minerals , or minerals which were deposited and buried too rapidly to become in equilibrium with surface temperatures and pressures , are brought into a regime where they are unstable in the prevailing conditions . |
| 17 | ‘ It happened too fast to feel much , ’ Harry said , smiling lopsidedly . |
| 18 | It may be a spaceship , although it is moving too slowly to arrive at a star . |
| 19 | They were moving too fast to jump out . |
| 20 | They have scouts , but only in front , and they are riding too fast to see much of the ground . ’ |
| 21 | She rushed away before anyone could stop her , rushed too quickly to hear Carlo say , I do n't know , I think if I were the beautiful Katherine 's mother , I might suffer the occasional twinge of jealousy . ’ |
| 22 | CINEMA outside Hollywood used to come in national waves , but no longer : China has been silenced for a while , and the work emerging out of Africa has been distributed too sporadically to seem like a movement . |
| 23 | Not for the first time he concluded that the Empire was inclined too quickly to dismiss mutant and alien societies and to confuse technological advancement with civilisation . |
| 24 | He reached too violently to grasp it , a tape snapped on the étrier , and he was gone . |
| 25 | His eyes were grey-green , like Finn 's , but had warm brown flecks in them and looked straight and candid ahead , as though they saw too directly to look from side to side . |
| 26 | But he speaks the , the wo A Ann was her name , she said that he speaks too softly to go on to that . |
| 27 | Two other grandmothers who came on regular visits , one ‘ very generous ’ and the other an eloquent ‘ martinet ’ , died too soon to leave more than a dim recollection . ’ |
| 28 | Scarlet had been willing to admit the truth of her words but had ceased too soon to concentrate , her mind already elsewhere as she wondered whether , if she could express herself differently and more coherently , her therapist might not have another , and a clearer , image of her . |
| 29 | Barco moves too late to break the drug barons |
| 30 | Those who move too hastily to denounce homosexuality across race and class as essentially or only exploitative , sentimental , or racist betray their own homophobic ignorance . |