Example sentences of "[be] too [adj] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he seems to have one problem that I 'm too embarrassed to ask him about . |
| 2 | What about you 're , you do n't , no I suppose you do n't feel like , will you be too tired to take him down tomorrow when you finish ? |
| 3 | It might not be too late to invite him to dinner , If he 's got nothing else planned . |
| 4 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 5 | He helped himself and we were too busy to stop him . |
| 6 | He also introduced Corbett who felt many of the lords were too busy to acknowledge him though he noticed Bishop Wishart of Glasgow , a wizened little man with a face as brown and as wrinkled as a shrivelled walnut , studying him intently beneath heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 7 | Lord Coulsfield was told that the victims believed that the 6ft 2in , 15st Storrie had a knife and were too frightened to resist him . |
| 8 | Mr Tiller used to come to tea every Sunday but we were too frightened to tell him about anything . |
| 9 | While most reggae DJs rapidly rise in popularity only to sink within a year , Shabba 's following has swelled over the past four years to a point where the reggae market is too small to contain him — witness the shooting and tear gas panic last year at the Brixton Academy , or January 's trashing of Tower Records , London , during a personal appearance . |
| 10 | When she sees , to her astonishment , by the light of the lamp , that her mate is the god of Love , she does not attack him , but it is too late to stop him from flying away . |
| 11 | Lancelot , although befriended by a hermit , can not be brought back to a normal state of mind because the hermit is too poor to feed him properly , and ‘ for defaute of sustenance he waxed more wooder than he was aforetyme ’ , and became violent , breaking the legs and arms of those who tried to help him . |
| 12 | It 's too late to remind him of what is long gone . ’ |
| 13 | It 's too early to judge him fairly . " |
| 14 | Well naturally he 'd want to keep a boy , and your ma 's husband would n't have been too keen to have him around . ’ |
| 15 | On reflection , she had been too quick to judge him and she regretted it now . |
| 16 | Iris had an American cousin staying with her and had been too busy dragging him round every art gallery and stately home in the county to have time for her . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been too busy to take him out all day , and I do like him to have a little outing . ’ |
| 18 | I was too young to remember him , but later at intervals a number of remarkable men , among them Arnold Hodson , Hugh Dodds and Arthur Bentinck , served on my father 's staff and were to remain our friends over the years . |
| 19 | When at last he came to see her , he obviously believed in the story of the German and she was too proud to tell him the truth . |
| 20 | I was too proud to follow him and beg forgiveness . |
| 21 | She was too honest to deceive him and too prudent to exchange him for a lover whose interest would probably not last very long . |
| 22 | A doctor was summoned at once , but it was too late to save him . |
| 23 | She was too late to save him . |
| 24 | By then it was too late to enter him for his other preferred Cheltenham Festival target , the Mildmay of Flete Handicap Chase , so he had to take his chance in the big one . |
| 25 | Realising that she was too slight to lift him , Sarah was desperate . |
| 26 | Unfortunately he was too polite to show him his own front door after half an hour . |
| 27 | The Democrats had no obvious candidate once Teddy Kennedy had decided that Chappaquiddick was too close to allow him to run in 1976 . |
| 28 | He commented that she was too cunning to allow him to see anything himself which would justify her certification , but in fact she was removed to the asylum a month later . |
| 29 | I only got Rosie 's help because he put it to you ; of course , it would be in a very nice way , that I was too tired to give him his rights . ’ |
| 30 | One of the vital things I had to do — and I was too tired to help him myself — was to keep Jimbo occupied . |