Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [conj] it [be] too " in BNC.
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| 1 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 2 | I felt that it was too easy for what were essentially white women 's publishers culling some short stories and poems from Blackwomen and then hailing the fact that they had published x-dozen Blackwomen writers . |
| 3 | Or else you sort of jotted them down at the back of your mind , you know , to think about them later , but you never remembered , or you did but it was too late , they 'd gone , your head was full of other things . ’ |
| 4 | She regretted that it was too dark for him to see how beautiful she had tried to make herself , even using malachite as well as the usual galena . |
| 5 | The Greeks distrusted this theology , even though they had a deep respect for Augustine , because they thought that it was too anthropomorphic . |
| 6 | He argued that it is too simplistic , and indeed ethnocentric , to dismiss such peoples as irrational and unscientific . |
| 7 | Far from arguing that the Bill did nothing , he argued that it was too draconian . |
| 8 | He had a pile of comics there which he read until it was too dark to see . |
| 9 | But he added that it was too early to try to determine ‘ the exact nature of the wiretaps and the identity of those responsible . ’ |
| 10 | After several years as a regular contributor and recipient of the irascible Mahor 's voluminous correspondence , he was due to succeed as editor of Cricket Quarterly in 1970 , and was foiled by a change of mind : ‘ he decided that it was too personal a project , and he could n't let anyone else take it on , ’ he remembers . |
| 11 | But he said that it was too early to make firm forecasts about demand . |
| 12 | But he said that it was too early to make firm forecasts about demand . |