Example sentences of "be too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skin up — we 're all dead but we 're too drugged to feel it . ’ |
| 2 | When the fry hatch out , they should be fed on Liquifry or rotifers as a first food , because they 're too tiny to take newly-hatched brine shrimp . |
| 3 | I just know it , even though you 're too nice to say it to my face . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Mo you 're too respectable to look at such things . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're too young to vegetate . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , of course you 're too young to live on your own , ’ Benny said . |
| 7 | ‘ The relationship begins to fall apart because they 're too young to live together , ’ reveals Jo . |
| 8 | You 're too young to live alone for long , and no one could see Cathy and not love her . |
| 9 | You 're too young to remember , my girl . ’ |
| 10 | You 're too young to remember , but that was the time of austerity . |
| 11 | You 're too young to talk like that . |
| 12 | But you 're too young to go for girls . |
| 13 | You 're too young to decide that . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're too young to belong to a certain time yourself , ’ says Lady De Marr . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're too young to think of love , ’ said her mother . |
| 16 | Which was what adults told children , he thought : You 're too young to understand . |
| 17 | It 's hard to explain to you … you 're too young to understand , yet — but I am searching for El Dorado . |
| 18 | I shall always be grateful to him for not giving me the usual reply of an adult to a curious child 's questions , ‘ You 're too young to understand . ‘ |
| 19 | Oh , Victorine said : you 're too young to understand . |
| 20 | Rosa muttered to Caterina , ‘ You 're too young to understand . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 're too young to have a child playing ? ’ asked Daisy , fishing . |
| 22 | You 're too young to have habits . |
| 23 | You do n't like it in the King 's Road , because they wo n't let you into the boutiques , and you 're too young to try on the dresses . " |
| 24 | ‘ Of course I 've got a plan , and you 'll see what it is in a few moments , if you 're too stupid to guess before that — ’ They swung round a bend and he swore suddenly and loudly . |
| 25 | And Mother says we 're too poor to have a fire , but there were always fires at our other house , and — ’ |
| 26 | And we 're too lazy to do any gardening . |
| 27 | ‘ Bad luck Duch , ’ they said , using the family nickname for their younger sister , ‘ your face is on the tea-towels so you 're too late to chicken out now . ’ |
| 28 | you 're too late to have ended up knock for knock . |
| 29 | And then again , you say all this and yet you say you 're too tired to swim ? " |
| 30 | ‘ Alarm bells are not ringing but I hope nobody thinks we 're too good to go down . |