Example sentences of "too [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supper had been too good , the weather was too pleasant and the company too friendly to worry about newspaper stories . |
| 2 | Too weak to do for itself . ’ |
| 3 | She was too weak to go through pregnancy . |
| 4 | Finally , they say the government is too weak to push through brave reforms that would upset public opinion : that , too , looks plausible . |
| 5 | The Collector listened from the Residency verandah , his head uncovered , but seated because he still felt too weak to stand for long . |
| 6 | Too weak to bargain over the State 's impositions , the townsmen could do no more than try to spread the burden as thinly as possible . |
| 7 | Too weak to fight against recession . |
| 8 | erm but ea she would n't bring him over to the phone , she said oh he 's too weak to come to the phone . |
| 9 | I find the Préludes disappointing , too brightly lit and stated rather than suggested : to take examples from Book 1 , the opening of ‘ Le vent dans la plaine ’ is not pp and surely not aussi légèrement que possible for this pianist , while the ‘ sounds and perfumes ’ of the next piece are too solid to float in the evening air . |
| 10 | Walking towards it , he yawned again , and hoped he was n't too exhausted to cope with whatever might follow Alexandra 's arrival in his flat . |
| 11 | She was hardly aware of the car pulling up outside the house , or of going up to her bedroom , claiming that she was too exhausted to relax on the beach and enjoy the remainder of the sunshine . |
| 12 | He said , ‘ Good evening , Mister President , ’ and , too exhausted to bother with niceties , took him by the elbow . |
| 13 | I never climaxed and I was too shy and too timid to ask for what I wanted , so afterwards I 'd be resentful … ’ |
| 14 | Although there is a school of thought that , if the vendor is besieged with questions , its management will be too occupied to negotiate with anyone other than the purchaser , it is important to consider who is operating the business if the full time attention of senior management is taken up with demands for information . |
| 15 | At dinner on the night when her doll had been broken , however , Katherine was too upset to pretend to be invisible . |
| 16 | He 's the leader of Tewkesbury Borough Council , and today too upset to talk of his granddaughter 's death . |
| 17 | His father had been too upset to talk to Darren about it and he had been sent to stay with an aunt that he did not know very well . |
| 18 | Evidence of identification was given by the college chaplain who said he was too upset to talk about the death . |
| 19 | I was too upset to go to school . |
| 20 | Her grief-stricken father , who was born in Mossley Hill , was too upset to comment on tragedy last night . |
| 21 | Mrs Preston added : ‘ In my opinion he looked too upset to work in an operating theatre so I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds . ’ |
| 22 | His brother Peter was too upset to come to the phone today but his secretary confirmed that Hunt , a father-of-two , died of a heart attack during the night . |
| 23 | The boys go to school every day — there 's a tiny place in Clyst St George — but they 're at large all the afternoon , and they 're getting a bit too obstreperous to have about the place . |
| 24 | Note that some residents may be too frail to co-operate with this moving technique . |
| 25 | A good example of Airdrie 's dogged persistence came when Alan Lawrence , looking far too frail to survive amid the Rangers defence , somehow wriggled clear of Oleg Kuznetsov on the right and flew the ball to the head of Owen Coyle , who headed high and away from Andy Goram as the goalkeeper twisted to his left . |
| 26 | The battle at the creek had begun , and they were far too undone to go to it . |
| 27 | People are showing me great compassion and I appreciate it … but it is too awful to talk about . |
| 28 | Printed material is suitable for both orientation and instruction and it has the advantage of ease of use for casual library users and those too shy to ask for help . |
| 29 | New toys are found for me and I play in the courtyard of the high-walled convent or slide on the waxed floors , too shy to talk to anyone . |
| 30 | They intrigued him immeasurably , almost as if they were rare and unusual animals or birds , although at first he was often too shy to speak in their company . |