Example sentences of "too [adj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could check at this time that there is actually a male present , as two females sometimes act out the spawning procedure , producing infertile eggs ; I have not seen this where males were available , so do not be too hasty to split up a pair , especially if you are not yet confident about sexing your Angels . |
| 2 | It may be that by now his authority is too weak to hold up his end of a coalition bargain . |
| 3 | Too weak to do either , she had gone on the streets . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Commonly , he is too weak to move about as he would like to but if strong enough , he can not keep still . |
| 6 | United started off like express trains despite that too weak lay off , in the second minute , Martin Foyle broke clear into the box on the left side , and from a tight angle goalkeeper Bob Bolder blocked the ball with his feet ; a minute later , Les Phillips ' shot was diverted over the crossbar by the foot of Alan Kernigan . |
| 7 | The Milk Bank at Sorrento Maternity Hospital in Mosely provides a life-saving service to premature and sick babies who are too weak to feed directly from the breast . |
| 8 | This was surely an argument for getting involved in Boiotia , because it was too weak to resist effectively , rather than an argument for leaving Boiotia alone , because it was too weak to make trouble for Athens . |
| 9 | Too weak to finish off Saddam Hussein . |
| 10 | He tried to shout for help , but was too weak to raise even the feeblest of cries . |
| 11 | He felt too weak to think rationally . |
| 12 | I 'm too weak to write much , so this has to be brief . |
| 13 | Tragedy of twin too weak to survive alone Three-year-old girl dies after 15-hour surgery to separate her from Siamese sister |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | And we cheered and laughed at its chequered progress — and picked it up again and again because it was still too weak to get up alone . |
| 16 | Then they too died as , too exhausted to fight any further , they were covered by a crust of snow which froze on in the bitter winds . |
| 17 | By the time they reach the end of the pool they are too exhausted to climb out . |
| 18 | I enjoyed the Green College Seminar , although I was too exhausted to get really stuck into the debate . |
| 19 | The girl in the back was too exhausted to worry anyway . |
| 20 | She stops , too upset to carry on , and sneaks back into one of the ground-floor apartments to wash and put on her pyjamas for bed . |
| 21 | Mrs Duncan , who now lives in Bryn Rhydd , Ruthin , was too upset to talk yesterday . |
| 22 | But he was too upset to remember clearly . |
| 23 | Mavis and Walter , pretending ‘ their horse 's welfare meant more to them than eating ’ , set off up the train to eat in the racegoers ' dining car , and so did Angelica , ‘ too upset to sit down ’ . |
| 24 | To have no line of communication to your own kind available can turn a tolerable solitude into a state of intolerable isolation ; and yet thousands of elderly people , who live on their own and are too frail to go out , are in this position . |
| 25 | She wore this lovely flowery dress last week though I felt too shy to ask where she got it . |
| 26 | In fact he had lost his nerve and was too shy to go up and knock on the door . |
| 27 | But the penguin felt too shy to say more . |
| 28 | They did not speak of what lay behind France 's bitter enmity , though it was always present in their minds , a spot too sore to touch on lightly . |
| 29 | Now that we are both too decrepit to walk far , it is good to remember those family walks . |
| 30 | It turns out that nearly all dispensaries are either destroyed , looted , or too decrepit to work in . |