Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it was 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 | ‘ The trouble was we did n't know until it was too late exactly what had hit him . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You know they always used to come when it was too late . |
| 5 | As the struggle progressed he came to see the inadequacies of the term and realized that it was too constricted in its meaning and gave rise to confusion and misunderstanding . |
| 6 | The ground was so contaminated that it was too dangerous even to try to remove the soil . |
| 7 | Far from arguing that the Bill did nothing , he argued that it was too draconian . |
| 8 | Both believed that it was too locally various and too unsystematically administered at the local level . |
| 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 | I imagine it might be said that it was too insistent on formal academic instruction , that it took things like examinations very seriously and prided itself on its academic record ; yet in fact the education it gave was surprisingly wide and varied … |
| 11 | Hurricanes subsequently searched until it was too dark to see , but no sign of the missing Auger could be found . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He knew he had to get things done before it was too late . |
| 14 | He had a pile of comics there which he read until it was too dark to see . |
| 15 | But she could see that it was too late . |
| 16 | Although many commented that it was too early in the session to form definite views , nearly two-thirds of respondents said they thought the additional assessment was an appropriate assessment method . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I stirred the potato powder into the liquid and would have begun eating but it was too hot . |
| 19 | Even though their intuitive ‘ feel ’ sensed that it was too far fetched to be real , nonetheless it had to be checked . |
| 20 | Keeping a big horse is expensive ; I know , I 've got one , and when I worked out what he cost me to keep I got to £50 per week and stopped because it was too frightening . |
| 21 | At an Italo-Ethiopian conference twenty years ago , experts who had overseen the transport of the Axum obelisk to Italy decided that it was too fragile to risk the home trip . |
| 22 | The Solent searched for nearly 45 minutes until at 1945 the coastguard decided that it was too dangerous to continue searching close inshore in the dark and very bad conditions and suspended the search . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But the Treasury warned that it was too early to predict whether the unemployment rate had peaked . |
| 25 | The cost of doing that it was too high for him . |
| 26 | Several politicians , including the opposition Social Democrat leader , Hans-Jochen Vogel , urged the East Germans to reform before it was too late . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mary felt that it was too much of an intervention , operators and technicians floating around trying to get mikes here and that it was distracting … she decided it might be more useful to try and fix the camera . |
| 29 | The Greeks distrusted this theology , even though they had a deep respect for Augustine , because they thought that it was too anthropomorphic . |
| 30 | 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 . |