Example sentences of "[vb past] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Edgbaston , in his early days , it is hard to recall him as the skinny lad in wire spectacles who tried too hard to bowl at medium pace , and when he became depressed at his form , came out in eczema rashes and asthma wheezes . |
| 2 | Wallace 's attempts to establish himself at United have been hindered by the player 's desperation to become a Stretford End hero as Fergie explained : ‘ He tried too hard to make himself popular . |
| 3 | A quarantine tank came too late to save a reader 's bitten Lionfish . |
| 4 | He emerged from the subsequent libel trial against the Daily Star with his reputation intact and £500,000 in damages ( he gave it all to charity ) , but his victory came too late to save his political career . |
| 5 | Legal abortion in Britain since 1967 came too late to explain the beginning of fertility decline . |
| 6 | And though John Sheridan responded with a delightful curling drive from a 20-yard free-kick to make it 2–1 , Zeyer 's bombshell came too late to leave Wednesday any hope of being rescued . |
| 7 | Alas , they came too late to do the wounded agency , or the arts , much good . |
| 8 | The doctor came too late to do it . |
| 9 | The Treasury says the decision to change the basis of treatment , announced by Peter Lilley , Trade and Industry Secretary , on February 13 , came too late to affect the current year 's figures but have been included in the 1993–94 estimates . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is fortunate that such success came too late to affect the newly developing teacher education programmes very fundamentally . |
| 11 | It could be argued that it came too late to correct the inequity completely , but at least it was a partial correction . |
| 12 | The subsequent rally in New York came too late to help London shares . |
| 13 | The Gulf war came too late to help the profits of Turner Broadcasting last year , whose CNN broadcasts from Baghdad since the war started have sent viewership — and advertising revenues — soaring . |
| 14 | The approval of British Airways stake in USAir came too late to have much effect and BA shares gained just 3p . |
| 15 | This reversal of policy came too late to prevent an outbreak in a Catholic area , the Quynh Luu revolt in part of Nghe-An province , in mid-November 1956 . |
| 16 | It was Leckey 's first NI championship win of the season and came too late to threaten Emerson 's position . |
| 17 | It seemed too good to pass up . |
| 18 | The rope seemed too slender to tow the forty-foot barge , piled high with coal or timber ; but it would glide by , scarcely breaking the still surface of the water . |
| 19 | The issue seemed too hot to handle for Andrew Neil , Sunday Sport boss David Sullivan , Anne Robinson , Oliver Reed and Jaci Stephens , but Paul Raymond , pornographer and Soho publican replied . |
| 20 | It seemed too strange to believe . |
| 21 | They seemed too exhausted to take much in , apart from one little girl who understood very well . |
| 22 | Her legs seemed too weak to carry her back upstairs to the sanctuary of her turret room . |
| 23 | The Annual Conference was held on 11 March — Peter considered going but the one-day rate , at £50 plus , seemed too expensive to warrant it . |
| 24 | Some things seemed too intimate to share , and she would have to speak of secrets which were not her own . |
| 25 | Her body seemed too languorous to react quickly to the commands her brain was issuing . |
| 26 | He seemed too stunned to speak before snorting with mirth again . |
| 27 | He seemed too depressed to do very much , wandering round the house like a zombie . |
| 28 | The little round lawn with its grass path was so bitty that I was tempted to remove it altogether , and the two paved areas seemed too small to accommodate much more than a deckchair . |
| 29 | Charity glared at her cousin , but Donna seemed too upset to notice . |
| 30 | They seemed too frightened to move . |