Example sentences of "i [be] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have n't you guessed , or have I been too indirect ? |
| 2 | Jerry and I are too frightened and too young to take part . |
| 3 | I am too tired for any fresh effort . ’ |
| 4 | " I have a headache " , " I have an appointment " , " I am too tired " , " I am too drunk " , or a hundred other excuses can take the place of " I have to make love to you " . |
| 5 | One of my biggest mistakes is that I am too trusting . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I am too frail to be a moors walker . |
| 7 | I think I am too strong , that 's what Mummy says . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , ’ sighed Babushka , ‘ I am too late but I shall lay my black bread in the manager , then the Christ Child will know that I came . |
| 9 | And yet — I am too hasty , too defensive — Yes , he did identify that mirage , or illusions , delusions very close in configuration to it . |
| 10 | But I am too honest — or too ungenerous : clamped tight like a mean smile or a poor woman 's purse . |
| 11 | Even after a few beers , I am too shy to ask the reason . |
| 12 | I am too hot to bother with them . |
| 13 | The editor 's look suggests displeasure , but I am too elated to worry and with a skip I whirl into the revolving doors and out laughing into the night.But now , what a fiasco ! |
| 14 | I am too clever and too hard to manage . |
| 15 | ‘ I am too young for this , ’ she said and handed him an article in return on the male menopause . |
| 16 | But at just thirtysomething , I am too young to be an orphan . |
| 17 | I am too young to remember but I think he began his career as a supervisor in the turquoise mines of the Northern Desert , towards the end of the reign of Nebmare Amenophis . |
| 18 | Tiriac is still miffed that the ATP final did not come to Stuttgart : ‘ The ATP told me to join the auction , but I am too good to have to do that . ’ |
| 19 | I am too good to serve food to them . |
| 20 | However , lest you think that I am too good to be true , let me at once add that I am not in the slightest inclined to gamble . |
| 21 | ‘ I am too exhausted to even think about a speech now , ’ Seb said , after the delivery . |
| 22 | I have tried , but I am too wee to reach . |
| 23 | And no doubt she thinks me strange beyond belief I am too tall , not handsome by this world 's standards , and I do n't know how to pay the pretty compliments a young woman expects . |
| 24 | " I have a headache " , " I have an appointment " , " I am too tired " , " I am too drunk " , or a hundred other excuses can take the place of " I have to make love to you " . |
| 25 | Similarly , in Fever 103 , she writes , ‘ I am too pure for you or anyone . |
| 26 | I am too upset to talk . ’ |
| 27 | I do n't know how the story started , but the truth is I am too close to my family to move away . ’ |
| 28 | I realize I am too awake to fall back asleep but I manage to make the fourth minute take longer than the previous three to count out , or finally |
| 29 | ( That 's another of my faults , I am too kind-hearted and often speak without thinking . ) |
| 30 | ‘ I am too poor , ’ he said , looking quickly at Boldwood to see if the farmer believed him . |