Example sentences of "[be] too [adj] do [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes but it 's too much like work , we 're too busy doing everything . |
| 2 | ‘ Relax , Claudia , I 'm too tired to do you justice , so you 're quite safe — for the moment . ’ |
| 3 | She keeps the place clean and dusted , and prepares the odd meal for me , if I 'm too busy to do it myself . |
| 4 | Now I can afford to but I 'm too old to do it professionally ! |
| 5 | Whereas when I work I 'm sort of too careful I think I 'm too scared to do something . |
| 6 | I went for a size ten it would be too big do you see what I mean whereas those fit okay ? |
| 7 | He might will well to her , and yet be too green to do her anything but harm . |
| 8 | After all , the greatest disaster would be to delay the decision until we were too inert to do anything about it . |
| 9 | My English teacher is too soft to do anything anyway . |
| 10 | It 's too , it 's too long to do anything with and to short |
| 11 | Now it 's too late to do them this morning cos the van 's already gone . |
| 12 | By the time I find a room it 's too late to do anything except go out on to the balcony and gaze down at the still-warm street , the signs . |
| 13 | And if you 're not careful you sit there blankly in the one armchair , with the curtains drawn and your bag on the stand , until it 's too late to do anything . |
| 14 | That 's what she 's like at school , misbehaving so languidly and aristocratically that by the time anyone notices , it 's too late to do anything about it . |
| 15 | You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's too late to do it today . |
| 17 | You wan na get it sorted out and tidied up tomorrow , it 's too late to do it now |
| 18 | No Carly , it 's too late to do it now . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's too polite to do anything quite so blatant . |
| 20 | And in the last five years he 's too old to do it . |
| 21 | They 've dried out a bit , been too tacky to do anything with . |
| 22 | She told the RSPCA that the animals in question were due to be moved to better grazing but she 'd been too busy to do it . |
| 23 | — Of course it can be , but I am too old to do it now . |
| 24 | It is a symptom which many women are too embarrassed to consult their doctors about , and which many doctors are too ignorant to do anything about . |
| 25 | If reviewers are too busy to do their job properly ( and I recognise their willingness to take on such a thankless task , though it is one that helps the process of science advance ) then they should be removed from that task . |
| 26 | For days , weeks , I was too indecisive to do anything , thinking that once home your love would fade — ’ |
| 27 | Ellen had to take Jed to casualty to have a cut above his eye stitched , as poor Prune was too upset to do it . |
| 28 | He accepted this he was too young to do anything else — but he hated her for saying it . |
| 29 | NRA Thames Region spokeswoman Sharon Bolton said : ‘ We had a call late on Sunday night and it was too dark to do anything so we went down on Monday morning and although there was evidence of oil there was not a sufficient amount for concern . |
| 30 | ‘ At first , ’ she replied slowly , ‘ I accepted it was an accident but then later , when it was too late to do anything about it , I remembered the way the boat had been tied up . ’ |