Example sentences of "too [adj] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could manage to absorb a tablet in between the bouts of vomiting it did stop the sickness and bring a pain-free sleep — but it left me too exhausted to do anything about enjoying life . |
| 2 | He would n't thieve he would n't he was too timid to do anything like that . |
| 3 | The family was still too upset to say anything about the accident . |
| 4 | She was too sore to want it inside her , and her mouth still retained the lingering taste of urine . |
| 5 | The men were too polite to accept them without being pressed a second and third time . |
| 6 | ‘ She is too polite to bore us with a travelogue . ’ |
| 7 | His tone was gentle , almost indulgent ; it was plain that he considered the whole idea farcical , but was too polite to tell her in so many words . |
| 8 | We do not see why the advantages should not be extended to working class people whose wages are too low to bring them within income tax limits ’ ( my italics ) ( Labour Party/TUC , 1929 , para. 4 ) . |
| 9 | GLOOMY Patrick Quinn is serving up Christmas dinners — because he thinks people will be too hard-up to buy them in December . |
| 10 | At the same moment two Bf109s which had obviously stationed themselves too high to catch us in our initial attack , flashed past in a steep dive and then I was within range of the remaining Italian pilots once again . ’ |
| 11 | If she was really too old to cure herself of facetious thoughts , at least she could bite them back from the tip of her tongue . |
| 12 | She just completely lost her nerve and was too afraid to tell him for fear of rejection . |
| 13 | Not that you 're likely to need it : they 're usually only too willing to release it on hearing of completion because then , with the balance of their commission , it can be used by them . |
| 14 | MORAL panic is one of the more enduring items on the domestic cultural menu and in a month of fatal stabbings , horrific child murder and economic gloom , society seems once again all too willing to frighten itself to death . |
| 15 | You think you might have a hobby , but are too embarrassed to tell anyone about it ? |
| 16 | There is usually little they can do and , even if they could , the imprisoned creatures are too demented to thank them for it . |
| 17 | But she remained disturbed , acutely aware of him at her side and only grateful that he despised her too much to allow himself to be seen touching her in public . |
| 18 | ‘ I love you too much to blame you for it ! |
| 19 | Maria Edgeworth [ q.v. ] mentions , in 1802 , that Watts had sold a four-volume novel ( untraced ) to William Lane [ q.v. ] for ten guineas and that Richard Lovell Edgeworth [ q.v. ] doubted her talent too much to recommend her to the publisher Joseph Johnson [ q.v . ] ; |
| 20 | ‘ Will it hurt too much to tell us about him ? ’ |
| 21 | Florian is too unimaginative to make anything of it . |
| 22 | I was too agitated to notice anything like that at the time . ’ |
| 23 | Teachers and schools , however well resourced and staffed , can only do so much to counter the effects of social disadvantage , and it is too easy to use them as scapegoats for the failure of political and economic policy . |
| 24 | If you do n't acknowledge this resentment , you will inevitably let it seep out and it 's all too easy to punish him by hinting at inadequacies , and burden him with guilt at your loss . |
| 25 | But if it has that civil capability it is all too easy to turn it to less than peaceful purposes . |
| 26 | Another delegate objected that all colonization was ‘ necessarily capitalistic and thus exploitative ’ , but a French delegate , Rouanet , reproached him : ‘ it is all too easy to blame everything on capitalism and to saddle it with all the crimes of colonization . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So it 's too dark to see anything at all in fact . |
| 30 | Sandy said , ‘ They 're the dangerous ones , ’ and then she looked into her glass even though it was really too dark to see anything of it . |