Example sentences of "too [adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 | He was staring at the glove box now , he was too low to see out of the window . |
| 4 | And of course Mr our salesman er he took it up to that big estate and er Mr had got too old to go up to the shooting on the horse you know . |
| 5 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 6 | Finding the car park empty , he was too embarrassed to go back to the pub and ask for help . |
| 7 | The women were asked ‘ Do you find you have too much to get through during the day ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Or maybe I just do n't see too much to laugh about at the moment . |
| 9 | Notice that this is an example of the first method I mentioned of concentrating substances on one side of a membrane : oxygen is withdrawn from solution by being bound to a haemoglobin molecule which is far too large to pass out across the lung membrane . |
| 10 | The old and infirm who were too feeble to keep up with the band were left behind to die . |
| 11 | Ken , upset , tried to drive his van through the line of Mr Rowse 's patients : he broke the ankle of an elderly man too feeble to jump out of the way . |
| 12 | He was suffering from an infected throat as a result of another poisoned tooth , and in November he was feeling too ill to go out in the evenings . |
| 13 | Already there was a small queue of young people at the café door , for this was Saturday night and the boys had put on their one-hundred-and-thirty-rouble English wool suits and the girls had fifty-rouble pointed shoes wrapped in a parcel , for they were far too valuable to wear out on the icy streets . |
| 14 | Unfortunately you find that no-one has ever bothered to produce the graphics before because they take too long to print out on the current office printer ! |
| 15 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |
| 16 | Is there anything too vile to bring out into the light ? |
| 17 | After the luxury of labour-saving devices it is just too tedious to go back to the old ways . |
| 18 | You are just too late to sign on for the one about Renaissance music , which will ‘ aim to understand the study of Renaissance occult mentalities as a case-in-point of the historiography of otherness ’ , with Gary Tomlinson of the University of Pennsylvania presiding . |
| 19 | Then I found her outside the kitchen door , crying , she 'd lost her shoes what with one thing and another and she was too ashamed to come back into the house . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | After the lecture there were tea and refreshments and it was not until fairly late that I rang Emily just to say Hello , and how sorry I was to be too busy to get over to the house to see her this trip . |
| 22 | And life 's too short to miss out on the chance of it for the wrong kinds of reasons . ’ |
| 23 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |
| 24 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |
| 25 | Chalon picked his way nervously among the throng , tossing his head and splattering mud over the feet of more than one unwary pedestrian who was too slow to get out of the way . |
| 26 | Once I can make a hole through them it should n't be too difficult to get round into the outer cellar . |
| 27 | But I was still far too young to venture out in the world ; it was unheard of even for an older girl to leave her home and family and become independent . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sure they will be only too intent to get back on the rails , ’ he observed . |
| 29 | City authorities from Calcutta to Cairo have laid sewers , but they are too expensive to keep up with the growth of the cities . |
| 30 | His own mum and his Auntie Ethel were sometimes too scared to go out of the house . |