Example sentences of "[pron] feel too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not stay at home and write a novel because I feel too tired and run down , and need a break from mental activity . |
| 2 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 3 | Teacher says it 's disgraceful But even if I had the time , I feel too tired . |
| 4 | ‘ I know there may be days when I feel too tired , but you see , I decided … we both decided that this was what we wanted to do . |
| 5 | Actually I feel too embarrassed to say much about this quiz since both my wife failed to recognise Aberystwyth station — a place we go to about once a week ! |
| 6 | She wore this lovely flowery dress last week though I felt too shy to ask where she got it . |
| 7 | The purplish thing drifted on to the beach , but I felt too lazy to walk over and examine it . |
| 8 | That night I felt too sick to be any such thing . |
| 9 | Anyway , I felt too ill . |
| 10 | I 'm not allowed to love Oliver — it makes me feel too warm , too happy and safe . |
| 11 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 12 | John Carruthers , one of the solicitors acting for Mr McTear , said the family doctor had declared his client unfit yesterday and that Mr McTear himself felt too ill to proceed . |
| 13 | Indeed , involvement in a group can sometimes be the only way to encourage more withdrawn people into a counselling situation , especially those people who feel too awkward or vulnerable in a one-to-one situation . |
| 14 | Unknown to them , she had been one of Tiller 's favourite leading ladies around 1906 , but when the work offers stopped she faced the same bleak future confronting all dancers who feel too old to dance . |
| 15 | You feel too dopey . |
| 16 | She demonstrates her first admission of remorse and indicates she feels too guilty to enjoy her new position as queen . |
| 17 | How insulting Delia Cope is , obviously she feels too high and mighty to read Spare Rib because it 's become less entertaining , uninteresting , uninformative and boring because it covers Black women 's issues . |
| 18 | She feels too old to be sharing a tub with Xanthe , but she is staying the night at her grandfather 's , as often happens , and this is the drill , bath-time , bed-time , together . |
| 19 | She felt too unwell to pursue the point any longer , and , besides , maybe the doctor could give her something for her migraine . |
| 20 | When Gazzer knocked at the back door , she was thinking , vaguely , that she ought to get dressed but she felt too apathetic to shift herself . |
| 21 | In another uneasy silence , they ate for a while , and when the wine-waiter brought a bottle of white Californian wine she felt too preoccupied to refuse when Guy poured some into her glass . |
| 22 | But now she felt too good to move . |
| 23 | But Miriam had noticed the slight intake of breath ; she had been perfectly aware that Louise might be shocked by her words but she had spoken them anyway , partly because she felt too weary not to say what she meant , partly because , though she liked Louise , she sometimes found her sweetness and prudish innocence rather cloying and it gratified her to offend them . |
| 24 | Stripped down to her petticoat , she felt too tired to undress further . |
| 25 | She felt too lethargic to speak : it did n't seem worth the effort . |
| 26 | She felt too vulnerable , sitting here naked in bed . |
| 27 | She ought to tell him just what she thought of him , but she felt too shaken , too drained for further conflict . |
| 28 | The fumes of the wine had not been entirely dissipated and she felt too lazy to go all the way to the village and tell Dr Wyn about her ears . |
| 29 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 30 | As her suspicion grew , at first , she felt too humiliated to mention what she had discovered . |