Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pers pn] [be] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I finished painting when it was too dark to see and later , in the nearest pub , I asked myself why I find water the most satisfying of all foregrounds. what follows gives some of the answers . |
| 2 | They argued against what they termed Hall 's ‘ ideologism ’ , suggesting that it is too elastic , descriptive and lacking in explanatory content . |
| 3 | Realising that she was too slight to lift him , Sarah was desperate . |
| 4 | But either it was not hunting or he was too big to tackle , for it disappeared over the heather ; and although he waited motionless for some time , it did not return . |
| 5 | He had been handcuffed and was crying with the pain , shouting that they were too tight . |
| 6 | You must tell your partner to stop pushing if it is too painful . |
| 7 | Never mind , it is a reckless , bloodthirsty tale , with Roland ultimately being punished for his hubris in refusing until it was too late to blow his oliphant , or horn , to summon back Charlemagne and the rest of the army to help his vastly outnumbered rear guard . |
| 8 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 9 | In fact she was just checking up on room service , wondering if it was too late to order a plain omelette and salad in her room . |
| 10 | I stirred the potato powder into the liquid and would have begun eating but it was too hot . |
| 11 | This procedure can fail to produce a result under extremes of lighting due to spreading if it is too bright or the exposure cut-off if it is too dim . |
| 12 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 13 | The cost of doing that it was too high for him . |
| 14 | Editing a program you like is fine if you know what you 're doing but it 's too easy to spend hours fiddling with the EQ to get the distortion to sound just so , when getting the right room size is the element that makes the sound . |
| 15 | NEARLY two out of five video owners find it difficult to programme their machines for recording because it is too complicated , says a Mintel market research report . |
| 16 | There is no point in reading the ASI and knowing that you are too slow unless you lower the nose to correct it . |
| 17 | Like a ship on a slow tide , she had moved away from him , without either of them knowing until it was too late and the drift could n't be stopped . |
| 18 | She was hardly aware of the car pulling up outside the house , or of going up to her bedroom , claiming that she was too exhausted to relax on the beach and enjoy the remainder of the sunshine . |
| 19 | Her husband had left her the year before for some Tex-Mex bitch , claiming that she was too boring to live with . |
| 20 | The fight did not take place , Surrey claiming that he was too lowly born to fight with a king ; and the fish garth remained . |
| 21 | Come on … now … before they finishes their arguing and it 's too late ! ’ |
| 22 | Jabbing violently forward , with no thought whatsoever of what she would do if she actually hit him , she did n't even notice where he was retreating until it was too late . |
| 23 | ‘ Have you ever seen a woman yoked to her husband pulling a plough because they ca n't afford an ox or a horse , while their baby lies under some hedgerow , wrapped in rags , sucking a crust and whining because it is too weak with hunger to cry ? ’ |
| 24 | If this proves not to be the case and if , faced with a major unemployment crisis , Britain finds itself with no recourse , then it should not hesitate in seceding before it is too late . |