Example sentences of "was too [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was too much to expect of the Government to spell out , as many had wanted , who should be trained , to what level and within what timescale . |
| 2 | Evidence of identification was given by the college chaplain who said he was too upset to talk about the death . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But he was too proud to plead at the right doors . |
| 5 | It was too late to go to the campsite , or even to get a bus out of town , so we stopped at a hotel where they worried about us and charged too much for Coke . |
| 6 | It was too late to go to the shaman 's lodge and fetch his precious writings . |
| 7 | I had a feeling that his logic would not bear close scrutiny but was too numb to argue with the ancient greenkeeper . |
| 8 | Either there was no helium or it was too faint to detect with the equipment then available . |
| 9 | Cranston , too , was thinking about events in the Tower but was too anxious to concentrate on the problems they posed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was too tired to go to the window again , and did not know now what he wanted to see on the other side of the glass . |
| 12 | She sensed an excitement in him and wondered why , but she was too tired to think at the moment . |
| 13 | He was too tired to care about the morality of it . |
| 14 | He said it was too early to talk about the number of jobs but the project would probably be less ambitious than the original scheme . |
| 15 | The business was put up for auction two months ago when Whitbread decided that its spirits operation , including brands such as Long John Scotch , Laphroaig malt whisky , Burrough 's mixed doubles and Beefeater gin , was too small to compete with the giants of the industry like Grand Metropolitan 's IDV , Guinness ' United Distillers and Allied-Lyons ' Hiram Walker Allied Vintners . |
| 16 | Cos he wou his reaction time , understandably , cos he was n't expecting it , ce happened like that and hi his reaction time was too slow to compensate for the stupidity of the bloke coming the other way . |
| 17 | In 1986/87 a farmer client sold his prize dairy herd because he found that at 67 he was too old to cope with the rigorous work involved . |
| 18 | He had never been too sure as , technically , she was too old to come under the heading of pretty . |
| 19 | In the event it was too windy to fly on the Sunday so he came back early and they spent the day in his garden preparing an area of lawn for seeding . |
| 20 | Gran would n't follow her ; her rheumatism was too bad to cope with the stairs more than twice a day , morning and evening . |
| 21 | Faced with this scenario , the plaintiff gave evidence that she was too frightened to sleep at the premises and had not done so since her initial eviction . |
| 22 | There were no Christmas holidays at the school , and it was too difficult to travel over the cold , windy hills to visit my little girls . |
| 23 | That was too big to put on the , on er the thing . |
| 24 | It was too big to conceal in the shed so she wheeled it outside and hid it in the freight car containing the metal beer kegs . |
| 25 | The house proved unsaleable : first , because it was too big to run during the war ; second , on account of its unfortunate recent history . |
| 26 | It was too heavy to turn in the wind , but it mattered little to know which way the wind was blowing : wherever it blew it blew word of the miraculous pageant and the Angel Gabriel . |
| 27 | She told him she was too busy to attend to the matter , whilst the guests gave up all pretence of looking at the pictures to stare at the intruder . |
| 28 | Zacchaeus knew he would n't get a very good look at Jesus because he was too short to see over the heads of the crowd , so he shinned up a tree . |
| 29 | He had hurt his right ankle and it was too painful to put to the ground . |
| 30 | FDR made it clear there must be no assistance to the French ; indeed he was ready to transfer Indo-China to Chiang Kai-shek , who was too realistic to rise to the bait . |