Example sentences of "too [adj] [to-vb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men were too polite to accept them without being pressed a second and third time . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | GLOOMY Patrick Quinn is serving up Christmas dinners — because he thinks people will be too hard-up to buy them in December . |
| 4 | There is usually little they can do and , even if they could , the imprisoned creatures are too demented to thank them for it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yeah , well , they say that they 're too large to poach them with , they come over the top , there we are , thank you . |
| 7 | Incidentally , vitamins were applied percutaneously to treat severely vitamin-deficient ex-prisoners too ill to take them by mouth after the Second World War . |
| 8 | And , since the letters were now gone , it was too late to scan them for clues . |
| 9 | The politicians , army officers , civil servants and government officials all descended and Aarau , of course , was too small to accommodate them in the style to which they were accustomed . |
| 10 | Some of the larger firms of surveyors produce property indices , but the statistical sample is probably too small to enable them to be reliable . |
| 11 | So it 's not too ridiculous to compare them to a cross between Marc Almond , Nick Cave and The Chameleons . |
| 12 | They are too scared to hug them in case that innocent action is misinterpreted , and too scared to smack them when they do wrong in case they are accused of assault . |
| 13 | ‘ TV highlights the unsavoury incidents , they are far too ready to put them on the screen . |
| 14 | But the child has his own ideas , and is only too ready to express them by himself if we would but allow him to . |