Example sentences of "[am/are] too [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're too young to decide that . |
| 2 | And we 're too lazy to do any gardening . |
| 3 | It 's only cos they 're too idle to cart these catalogues and things about . |
| 4 | You 're too busy to speak some days . |
| 5 | We sometimes talk when we meet on Saturday nights , but we ca n't hear when the bands are on , and afterwards I 'm either too drunk to talk or , if I can speak , I 'm too drunk to recall much of what I 've said . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm too exhausted to have any fun right now , ’ she said , sitting up and grumpily inspecting the blister between her small toe and the next one over . |
| 7 | I try rubbing them , but I 'm too tired to do that for long , so I just stick them back in my pockets . |
| 8 | And I 'm too tired to write any more . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm too fat to fit any of the stock Maritza costumes . ’ |
| 10 | Then he smiles as if I 'm too naive to have any right on my side . |
| 11 | The nails are too long to do this actually . |
| 12 | Her father was explaining something to her in that overloud , careful voice which he used to her mother , the voice which said : ‘ I know you are too stupid to understand this but I will talk slowly and loudly and hope that you wo n't try my patience too far . ’ |
| 13 | As the audience are too preoccupied to buy any drinks , the barman and five barmaids dance on the bar throughout . |
| 14 | The economies of the poor producing countries , such as Colombia or Pakistan , are too small to absorb such sums . |
| 15 | The less fortunate have to stand on aching pins as the carriage , unventilated ( it is impossible to fit air conditioning to tube trains as the tunnels are too small to acccommodate such devices ) , grows hot and foetid ; even the lines of Shirley Lim 's Modern Secrets up there amongst the ads- ‘ Last night I dreamt in Chinese/Eating Yankee Shredded Wheat ’ -brought to us by ‘ Poems On The Underground , ’ a ruse to make tube travel a little less stressful , can not alleviate the strap-hangers ' gloom and frustration . |
| 16 | This may suggest that both initial hypotheses are too simple to gain much support . |
| 17 | You are too young to know this . |
| 18 | North and north-east Lewis lies in the rain shadow of these hills ; the Uist machairs are too low-lying to receive much orographic precipitation , while St Kilda , with a summit at 426 m , is sufficiently high to develop highly localised weather conditions , with increased rainfall , humidity , cloud cover and wind exposure ( Campbell 1974 ) . |
| 19 | The aunts are too busy criticising each other 's cooking to notice the small skirmish taking place up front : Jacob wrestling with the angel has nothing on several stone of reluctant Rosenbloom wrestling with an invisible me . |
| 20 | The unique Late Permian palaeogeography does not feature in any of the current physical climate models , usually on the grounds that dimensions of unit cells used in sensitivity experiments are too large to include such details , or that the geography is a result of ‘ microclimate ’ influences . |
| 21 | The cores from the central and north basins are too short to record this event . |
| 22 | At this level , eight games are too few to allow any margin for error ( in world championship matches , they play 24 ) . |
| 23 | And for the opposite reason we neglect variations in the numbers of those who are brought up as seafaring men for these variations are too slow to produce much effect in the year or two during which the scarcity of meat lasts . |
| 24 | The implicit dangers of this are too obvious to need much elaboration . |
| 25 | You know , probably some of us are too old to accept this , but er , the younger people |
| 26 | Many names are too irate to care any more whether Lloyd 's lives or dies . |