Example sentences of "too [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was too sore to want it inside her , and her mouth still retained the lingering taste of urine . |
| 2 | The men were too polite to accept them without being pressed a second and third time . |
| 3 | ‘ She is too polite to bore us with a travelogue . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | GLOOMY Patrick Quinn is serving up Christmas dinners — because he thinks people will be too hard-up to buy them in December . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | She just completely lost her nerve and was too afraid to tell him for fear of rejection . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There is usually little they can do and , even if they could , the imprisoned creatures are too demented to thank them for it . |
| 11 | ‘ I love you too much to blame you for it ! |
| 12 | 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 . ] ; |
| 13 | ‘ Will it hurt too much to tell us about him ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But if it has that civil capability it is all too easy to turn it to less than peaceful purposes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yeah , well , they say that they 're too large to poach them with , they come over the top , there we are , thank you . |
| 19 | Incidentally , vitamins were applied percutaneously to treat severely vitamin-deficient ex-prisoners too ill to take them by mouth after the Second World War . |
| 20 | ‘ To be honest , I 'm a bit tired of being described just as a jazz singer or with words like ‘ abstract ’ , ’ she says , responding to reviews that have tried a little too hard to distance her from the rave scene she still feels so much a part of . |
| 21 | My council colleagues in Cheltenham will be only too glad to help me with it as well . |
| 22 | It would take far too long to tell you in detail how I identified the specific genetic patterns of these chromosomes ; you 'll have to accept my assurance that I believe I did identify them . ’ |
| 23 | Claudia accepted his arm round her shoulders as inevitable ; she was far too tired to fight him at the moment . |
| 24 | An operation like this must be a write-off , the odds against it were too great to make it worth pursuing . |
| 25 | In many ways this was a sensible policy since even if Danzig had not been made a Free City and had remained within the long arm of Prussia , the local economy was too poor to maintain it for long ; a German Danzig would still have been forced to rely upon a distant Vistula hinterland . |
| 26 | It might not be too late to invite him to dinner , If he 's got nothing else planned . |
| 27 | When she sees , to her astonishment , by the light of the lamp , that her mate is the god of Love , she does not attack him , but it is too late to stop him from flying away . |
| 28 | It 's too late to remind him of what is long gone . ’ |
| 29 | Once the scheme is launched it may be too late to save it from failure if you have no readily available answers to the many questions that employees will certainly raise . |
| 30 | And , since the letters were now gone , it was too late to scan them for clues . |