Example sentences of "'s too [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's too dark to see , and she has her head buried in my chest . |
| 2 | So it 's too dark to see anything at all in fact . |
| 3 | The pavement 's too crowded to walk on without bumping into people , so I step off and walk in the gutter . |
| 4 | ( If it 's too long to do this right through , view the first few minutes without sound . ) |
| 5 | It 's too , it 's too long to do anything with and to short |
| 6 | I 'll not be wanting to live with a man what 's too proud to take a helping hand from someone as was like our own son , and that 's a fact . ’ |
| 7 | She 's really pleased to see us , thought Margaret Seymour-Strachey , but she 's too proud to show it , poor old thing . |
| 8 | Nick says he 's too mean to buy new ones . |
| 9 | He retorted : ‘ He 's entitled to his opinion , but I do n't share it and It 's too premature to talk about anyone being certainties , or anyone being out of the running , especially with this group developing so closely . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Of course he 's entitled to his opinion , but I do n't share it and it 's too premature to talk about anyone being certainties , or anyone being out of the running . ’ |
| 11 | He 's too decent to blame you . |
| 12 | If it was definitely linked to her death I might have to break a promise — which I 'd hate doing because the repercussions for the crew could be very serious — but it 's too vague to go to Foucard and run risks with other people 's livelihoods . ’ |
| 13 | Of course , erm there 's a lot more individual responsibility is needed than that , but it 's too simplistic to say that that erm to smile upon these people who have problems would solve everything erm but erm to make it your own responsibility to find out more and to find out the ways in which you can help I think is very important and is everybody 's responsibility . |
| 14 | But it 's too simplistic to pretend that one way is better than the other because the comparison is n't between like and like . |
| 15 | Did n't get the plates , I 'm gon na get them tomorrow , it 's too awkward to carry but I generally get nothing exciting . |
| 16 | There is one way to sharpen their appetites , but it 's too cruel to mention . |
| 17 | For larger boats a life jacket like this one is fine , particularly if you are going further offshore but it 's too clumsy to wear in a small sail boat like the Topper and so we prefer the buoyancy aid like this one . |
| 18 | It 's too late to remind him of what is long gone . ’ |
| 19 | Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally . |
| 20 | She 's fond of him still , in her way , but they quarrelled all those years ago and it 's too late to mend it . |
| 21 | It 's too late to argue now that the forms should have been available earlier . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's too late to back out now . |
| 23 | ‘ You realise it 's too late to return to Cairo tonight . ’ |
| 24 | It 's it 's too late to ask I know . |
| 25 | Part of that would be that they identify that that 's , I 'm going there two years hence that 's the pathway and it 's too late to wait until next January a year from January and suddenly realise they need six G C S E's , a , b , c when they 've lost half their grades on the course work to date . |
| 26 | I suppose it 's too late to put an antebellum mansion on the label ? ’ |
| 27 | And it 's too late to put together the story I really wanted to do this week . |
| 28 | Put it on there , oh it 's too late to put it on there , oh that 's alright do it like that |
| 29 | You have now set sail for a new destination and it 's too late to turn back . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's too late to do it today . |