Example sentences of "[noun] too [adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kids too sick to raise their heads , lying soft and limp beneath the burden of heart disease , kidney failure and cancers that eat everything but innocence . |
| 2 | But today with his mind too preoccupied to work he seemed quite unable to keep his hands off it . |
| 3 | Gould 's time was too precious and his ambition too overriding to allow him a thought for artistic temperament . |
| 4 | He threw out no sounding parties too weak to guarantee their own safety , and he lost none of them . |
| 5 | The Prince politely shook hands with six Peggottys , two Betsy Trotwoods , eight Mr Pecksniffs , seven Mr Fezziwigs , eight Mrs Fezziwigs , two Doras , a couple of Little Dorrits , two Miss Flites , a villainous gentleman who announced he was the convict Magwitch , and numerous other Lionisers too nervous to announce their identities . |
| 6 | Incidentally , vitamins were applied percutaneously to treat severely vitamin-deficient ex-prisoners too ill to take them by mouth after the Second World War . |
| 7 | Auntie who appears to belong to neither Paul nor Kate 's family sends a pair of wool bootees too small to fit anything except a couple of radishes . |
| 8 | She bawled lustily as each peg was snatched away , and screeched when the tip of the squirt went a centimetre too far to flick her quim lips . |
| 9 | The holdings varied greatly in size : some were almost small farms while others were plots too small to support their owners . |
| 10 | But do n't worry , precious as Moorlake is to me , it would be taking things too far to marry you for the sake of making it whole again . " |
| 11 | As a consequence , feudal contracts in the full sense of the term must have been more important for supplying castle-guard than for campaigning ( though it would be pushing the argument too far to deny them any significance in the field ) . |
| 12 | Their great unpopularity may have been the consequence of the heavy financial burden they imposed on their employers ; their mere existence is proof that money was circulating fast in western Europe ; but that they were not always paid implies an economy too immature to support them readily . |
| 13 | Housing official too busy to see me . |
| 14 | Kneale read the synopsis but felt the format too whimsical to fit his much grimmer style of writing . |
| 15 | My torch failed , and I found my hands too cold to fix it , so just followed Charlie 's light from stance to stance . |
| 16 | Ramsay 's lance snapped off , broken , and left his right arm and hand too numb to draw his sword . |
| 17 | It has its fair share of crash , bang wallop and does take a mite too long to wrap itself up , but Sneakers is very funny , hugely entertaining and always ingeniously wacky and it 's good to see that reports of Mr Redford 's celluloid ‘ death ’ have been been a touch premature and certainly exaggerated . |
| 18 | The burrow has become their main survival device , saving them not only from swooping birds but also from earthbound predators too large to follow them . |
| 19 | ‘ Probably one of the Grassmarket winos too pissed to find his way home , ’ sneered McEllhoney . |
| 20 | Both Zoia and Nicu showed early promise in mathematics and teachers or professors too blind to recognize it were shunted aside . |
| 21 | Carrying torches to light their way , they all reached the shore safely , but to their dismay found the wind still unfavourable , and the sea too rough to allow them to get away . |
| 22 | Then he drew on his cigarette in an attempt to mask what Harry had already glimpsed : the shock of one who perceives a threat too late to evade it . |
| 23 | It was sweet of you to go ; I just thought I better get something but once these attacks start it 's a bit too late to take anything really . |
| 24 | I feel a bit too stewed-up to drive myself , ’ Cara confessed . |
| 25 | But I was , I was a bit too young to turn it into a shag palace . |
| 26 | A mistress too ill to keep her eye on the books ! |