Example sentences of "and too [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are some initiatives going on which interest me , whereby young women who had a child when they were adolescent , and although they love the child , regret very much that they were too young , too immature , and too unsupported to care for it effectively : it 's being suggested that they should go into schools and talk to girls about the glories of motherhood at the right time , but begging them not to embark on it too young . |
| 2 | Little tarts with too much make up and too much to say for themselves . |
| 3 | She 's both too intelligent and too incompetent to flourish in that setting . ’ |
| 4 | Then she followed her father back towards the flock , where the sheep at the rear , desperate at the sight of hay ahead and too stupid to look for it from any source except the one they all sought , were scrambling on to each other 's backs in panic . |
| 5 | By that time it would have been halfway to low water and too late to dispose of the body in the old sewage outfall that night . |
| 6 | The impartial observation able to be made is that , in both cases , it is a question of where the clubs go from here and too early to jump to any conclusions . |
| 7 | It is too simple a matter to damage those rare few who are too brave , too scornful and too trusting to put on armour . |
| 8 | Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time . |
| 9 | The usual reason these days is that the target company employs an army of people with skills of a kind difficult and too time-consuming to assemble by recruitment , and that trying to build such a team would cost much more than buying the company . |
| 10 | As a rule of thumb guide , to the effectiveness of a machine , items coming out should be visibly clean and too hot to handle with comfort . |
| 11 | I never climaxed and I was too shy and too timid to ask for what I wanted , so afterwards I 'd be resentful … ’ |
| 12 | Griffith had the wit to apply Inglis 's mathematics on a far finer scale , to ‘ openings ’ of almost molecular size and too fine to see with an optical microscope . |
| 13 | Imagine a fine wire which is too far away and too thin to see by any ordinary means . |
| 14 | I was very concerned that the space of the north gallery would dissipate out into these side pockets , these large shadow boxes , which are too small to be rooms and too large to function as niches for sculpture . |
| 15 | Doug Lawson , principal officer for children 's services at Cheshire County Council says Appleton House is considered too large and too institutional to continue as a children 's home . |
| 16 | Dressed in a flared skirt of fine wool which she topped with a shirt and a sweater , Fabia , with a jacket over her arm and too impatient to wait for the lift , hurried down the stairs to meet him . |
| 17 | With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening . |
| 18 | Now come clean : PJ Harvey is actually Nick Cave in drag and too embarrassed to appear in public . |