Example sentences of "[vb past] it too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would say he had met a friend at the wine bar and gone on somewhere and found it too late to get back . |
| 2 | But I found it too embarrassing to keep suggesting to a fellow professional that he should take time off from his own work to accompany me to functions where he was not able to join me at the dinner table when he got there . |
| 3 | But many of them are failed physicists who found it too hard to invent new theories and so took to writing about the philosophy of physics instead . |
| 4 | He produced his remarkable output in four hours a day — he found it too exacting to do more — in the mornings , with afternoons and evenings often spent walking or listening to records . |
| 5 | I glanced quickly at it but found it too difficult to understand , so I gave it back . |
| 6 | I said I thought it too valuable to wear constantly and had put it in my dressing-table drawer . |
| 7 | The ‘ development theory ’ made it too easy to claim that a state 's interests were at stake at the first sign of legitimate criticism . |
| 8 | Coatings used to have separate plants in each country , because local tariffs and duties made it too costly to import . |
| 9 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 10 | In many cases the local review committee at the seven year review considered it too early to set a release date , which no doubt dashed the hopes of the prisoners whose sentences were under review . |