Example sentences of "too [adj] even [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realized that the child was smiling straight at her but she was too tired to engage with her , too detached to make contact , too hidden to do anything but take a photograph and her fingers felt too weak even to do this . |
| 2 | By that time she was in bed all day , too weak even to joke . |
| 3 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 4 | The most famous and best loved of all Sam 's wild pets was a swan which he found one day lying prostrate by the side of Hury Reservoir , too weak even to stand . |
| 5 | On the shelf below him the old man was vomiting again , too weak even to roll over so that blood and mucus oozed down his chin and neck , some of it bubbling back into his throat . |
| 6 | Lou 's voice trailed into silence ; she was played out , too exhausted even to weep . |
| 7 | He lay still for hour after hour , naked beneath a sheet because of the heat and humidity , the mosquito net cast aside for air , too exhausted even to lift an arm to drive away the mosquitoes which constantly settled on his face . |
| 8 | He was too exhausted even to go to Aix . |
| 9 | He seemed too exhausted even to speak or move his eyes . |
| 10 | The abortive kidnapping had left him drained — too exhausted even to contemplate the consequences of his failure . |
| 11 | He was too depressed even to care about travelling back on the tube with his right wrist in a sling during a period which the Tooting Guardian had described as a peak time for knife attacks . |
| 12 | too gauche even to say the reason why , |
| 13 | Many people today are too lazy even to open a tin . |
| 14 | She dreamed of Fincara that night , fierce laughter ringing in her ears , magic binding her like a cold sticky web ; and woke just before dawn , too afraid even to cry . |
| 15 | It 's too painful even to talk about . |
| 16 | The young man went on staring at him ; the idea that he had seen Dyson on television seemed to be too far-fetched even to penetrate his consciousness . |
| 17 | Finally , some teachers did not return the questionnaire because they had not been in the school at the time of the review and felt that their knowledge of SSE as a general notion was too limited even to enable them to complete the section on general attitudes . |
| 18 | For a moment or two Billy was too relieved even to ask what he was doing in the house , or how he 'd managed to get in when it was all locked up . |
| 19 | The ground was so contaminated that it was too dangerous even to try to remove the soil . |
| 20 | Here for all to see was the great lesson of World War I : the machine-gun made direct attack too costly even to contemplate . |
| 21 | But as the men in suits — the politicians — give way to the men in the studios — the experts — it seems too obvious even to mention the fact that these days there is hardly a woman 's face to be seen on television . |
| 22 | The Berwyn catchment in north Wales is now too acidic even to support the American Brook Charr , which was introduced specifically to cope with the acid . |
| 23 | He was too tired even to beg . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm too tired even to object ’ , said one drained looking young woman . |
| 25 | On the third day , unshaven and too tired even to eat , I was examining Jimbo while Alec was in the middle of his sick parade . |
| 26 | She closed her eyes , too tired even to try to reassure her sister-in-law . |
| 27 | The number of those employed as teachers , artists , etc. , is too great even to mention . |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe she 's waiting to ring later , ’ Shirley said feebly , as a tide of rage with Liz , far away in distant London , washed through her : too absorbed in her own life , too selfish even to spend five minutes talking to her own mother . |
| 29 | Long hair would be good , but hers was cropped short now , too short even to pin on a fall . |
| 30 | Being in an alleyway with only two exits , she had little chance of escape ; she was too shocked even to think of escape anyway . |