Example sentences of "too [adj] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to say that I was not too sorry to see him go . |
| 2 | Although BT said they were continuing to look at the results of the experiment , initial findings included the fact that not only was BT satisfied with productivity achieved but the staff themselves were only too sorry to see it end . |
| 3 | She did n't belong here , but they were too self-involved to see it . |
| 4 | Many old people tell their elderly friends , in confidence , that although they worry sometimes about various things in the house that need attention and are beyond their capabilities , they do n't like to keep mentioning ‘ this and that ’ to their children when they visit , as they are only too delighted to see them and feel it is a bit hard to put them to work as soon as they arrive . |
| 5 | ‘ He did n't seem too delighted to see you , ’ said Betty . |
| 6 | ‘ If the rain gets heavier there wo n't be any tracks to follow , and , even if there were , ‘ t is too dark to see them . ’ |
| 7 | There 's a shortage of teachers in Germany as well as here and they were only too glad to see me . |
| 8 | They 're too glad to see me to worry about authenticity . |
| 9 | And I was too stubborn to see it . ’ |
| 10 | But it was I who was stupid , too stupid to see he had reason for wanting to establish what he thought of as respectable origins . |
| 11 | I said I was too busy to see him . |
| 12 | Housing official too busy to see me . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sorry , he says he 's too busy to see you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The reason why he 's too shortsighted to see you there right under his very nose . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The truth is staring you in the face , but you 're too blind to see it . |
| 16 | He did n't look too pleased to see me , but then he knows what I think of his work . |
| 17 | The Parisians would scarcely spare a second thought for an Englishman and be only too pleased to see me twitch and shake at the end of a rope . |
| 18 | They fell silent , each reflecting on what was past , then slowly Rachel said , ‘ It was no wonder your mother was n't too pleased to see me . |
| 19 | Unfortunately Atticus is not too pleased to see her and tells Jem to take her and Bill home . |
| 20 | He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him . |
| 21 | — Only you were too thick to see it . |
| 22 | But when I recall her attitude over this house I ca n't help wondering if that hardness has always been in her , and I was too dumb to see it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ She summoned you here , and it is only right that you should know the reason , albeit she is too unwell to see you herself . |
| 24 | The years of slavery are in some measure paid for by the clothes and jewellery heaped upon them by the Egyptians , now only too anxious to see them go . |
| 25 | ‘ Denis Heymer , Frankie 's manager , answered and said Frankie would be only too obliged to see us , ’ he recalls . |