Example sentences of "she [verb] too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alone once more , she walked and walked , and when she became too hot to carry on , she swam again and dried herself in the sun . |
| 2 | She demonstrates her first admission of remorse and indicates she feels too guilty to enjoy her new position as queen . |
| 3 | She felt too unwell to pursue the point any longer , and , besides , maybe the doctor could give her something for her migraine . |
| 4 | When Gazzer knocked at the back door , she was thinking , vaguely , that she ought to get dressed but she felt too apathetic to shift herself . |
| 5 | In another uneasy silence , they ate for a while , and when the wine-waiter brought a bottle of white Californian wine she felt too preoccupied to refuse when Guy poured some into her glass . |
| 6 | But now she felt too good to move . |
| 7 | Stripped down to her petticoat , she felt too tired to undress further . |
| 8 | She felt too lethargic to speak : it did n't seem worth the effort . |
| 9 | The fumes of the wine had not been entirely dissipated and she felt too lazy to go all the way to the village and tell Dr Wyn about her ears . |
| 10 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 11 | As her suspicion grew , at first , she felt too humiliated to mention what she had discovered . |
| 12 | She did n't understand but she felt too embarrassed to say so . |
| 13 | She felt too uptight to embark on cooking her chicken dish that night , so she organised a simpler meal of terrine , followed by an omelette and fruit . |