Example sentences of "too [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he waxed into an eloquent period , he would realize the absurdity of his situation or the humbug of his pleading and be overcome with internal laughter , a laughter so vast that on occasion it left him too weak to go on with the speech . |
| 2 | Alison Norman in her challenging discussion paper suggests very basic origins for ageism : ‘ We have , after all , an animal inheritance and it is animal instinct to challenge and destroy the leader of the herd when his strength begins to fail and to abandon to their fate animals which are too weak to keep up with the rest . ’ |
| 3 | Unfortunately , working-class blokes were far too sensible to take up with Gina . |
| 4 | She loved Simon ; too much to set out with him in that way — two pawns in a combinazione , a deal , even if partly his own . |
| 5 | Though most merchants say it is too early to come up with a firm idea of the trade , the initial reports on quality suggest some low nitrogens and good bushel weights , at least for the Puffin that seems to predominate at the moment . |
| 6 | And again she found herself thinking that maybe Jeff had been right and Guido was simply an insufferable bully , the type of man it would be all too easy to fall out with . |
| 7 | The old and infirm who were too feeble to keep up with the band were left behind to die . |
| 8 | But if manufacturers were to try too hard to come up with new ideas we 'd be constantly faced with designs to rival Gibson 's semi-mythical Moderne and Burns ' Flyte in the grossness stakes . |
| 9 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 10 | I 'm far too busy to mess about with this sort of thing today . |
| 11 | The bottom line was that there was nothing for them to do and those thoroughbred young men were too bright and too vigorous to put up with endless bull . |
| 12 | As luck would have it , Jean-Claude found he needed some old scores he had put to one side as they were too heavy to bring along with everything else we had had to load on the motor cycle . |
| 13 | It 's too big to take out with you but the drawings and descriptions of over 300 common British birds are great for teaching beginners what to look out for when trying to identify a new bird . |
| 14 | Meredith knew she should n't sound too keen to fall in with his plans . |
| 15 | City authorities from Calcutta to Cairo have laid sewers , but they are too expensive to keep up with the growth of the cities . |
| 16 | At the same time I could hear someone tapping frantically on the glass door of the kiosk , someone far too anxious to clamber in with me . |
| 17 | The change becomes easier and easier and when the mid-point is passed those who have been left behind with the old method are only too eager to catch up with their colleagues . |
| 18 | It has got too far the imtimidation from the young people has got too bad to put up with |
| 19 | It has got too far the imtimidation from the young people has got too bad to put up with |