Example sentences of "[adv] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was suddenly too weary to argue . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sure they will be only too intent to get back on the rails , ’ he observed . |
| 3 | I 'd be only too thankful to answer the phone . " |
| 4 | Now the Network has over 100 local organisers , many of them recruited from the ranks of sports development officers all over the country , who are only too keen to incorporate running for women as part of their programme . |
| 5 | It should have been called , ‘ The World Is Only Too Keen To Listen . ’ |
| 6 | This narrowed our market and the prospective sellers were only too keen to bring their vehicles to our immobile selves for inspection . |
| 7 | Our canine consultant , Sally , was only too keen to check out its bona fidos . |
| 8 | Those conscientious airlines that put safety before profit make the major contribution , while all the rest are only too keen to read about other people 's troubles but less willing to contribute themselves . |
| 9 | Most employers are only too keen to introduce new employees gently to their employment . |
| 10 | They range from about 17 to 30 and all but Violeta have experience of life and men — which they are only too keen to pass on to Fernando . |
| 11 | It is also only too keen to buy and , just two months after the release of ‘ The World Wo n't Listen ’ , Rough Trade were forced into the position of issuing yet another Smiths compilation album , this time a double album , on to the English record racks . |
| 12 | Captain Hamilton , living in a modest flat in Fulham , was only too relieved to get rid of the house and the whole burden of debt . |
| 13 | They seemed only too anxious to leave . |
| 14 | You may have to face up to a display of feelings of hurt or rejection ; but if your parent is a naturally unselfish person ( and not mentally impaired ) who had simply failed to realise your need for this degree of privacy and emotional ‘ living-space ’ , she will probably be only too anxious to co-operate . |
| 15 | I thought there were armies of students only too anxious to join digs in the long vacation . ’ |
| 16 | The years of slavery are in some measure paid for by the clothes and jewellery heaped upon them by the Egyptians , now only too anxious to see them go . |
| 17 | He 's only too anxious to 'ave me there , ’ answered his brother . |
| 18 | There are a number of men only too anxious to buy themselves a knighthood who might be most attracted to a project that catches the public sympathy . ’ |
| 19 | She was only too anxious to get out of this room now that her employer had ‘ shown her true colours ’ as Araminta had promised she would . |
| 20 | It remains for us to ask how the popular Hitler image we have examined contributed towards the growing strength of the regime and towards making possible this war , which , from what we have seen , most Germans — though prepared to fight if necessary — had been only too anxious to avoid . |
| 21 | I am happy to give an undertaking to my hon. Friend that I would be only too delighted to visit his constituency , but I should be grateful if he would release me on Christmas day . |
| 22 | Many old people tell their elderly friends , in confidence , that although they worry sometimes about various things in the house that need attention and are beyond their capabilities , they do n't like to keep mentioning ‘ this and that ’ to their children when they visit , as they are only too delighted to see them and feel it is a bit hard to put them to work as soon as they arrive . |
| 23 | The present landlord was all too eager to keep up his predecessor 's reputation in the matter of hollands , and was only too delighted to dispense it to as many Lionisers who requested it . |
| 24 | It is possible that wise Neanderthal men and women were only too delighted to allow themselves to be killed and eaten , on the basis that their souls would live on in newly inhabited bodies . |
| 25 | The Ballinascreen man , now 28 , is among those who are only too delighted to lap up the build-up to tomorrow week 's All Ireland final . |
| 26 | But world-travelled Francie , who is heavily involved with the St. Canice GFC in his home town , is now only too delighted to adopt a ‘ parochial stance ’ as football fever rages all around him . |
| 27 | The competition was hosted by Torness and Maintenance Manager Mark Northrop was only too delighted to present the prizes . |
| 28 | Mollie Salisbury had designed several gardens for friends , as well as her own at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire , and she was only too delighted to help plan a garden from scratch . |
| 29 | Grunte , who affected never to have sought office — ‘ too many people dependent on me , dear boy , wheels of commerce and all that ’ — would have been only too delighted to accept the seals of any office . |
| 30 | On one site the author recalls contacting the oldest locals , who advised that a site had only flooded once in living memory and they were only too pleased to point out a ’ flood line ’ still just visible on a number of buildings in the area after 30 years . |