Example sentences of "too [adj] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are some women and children but most are men from other camps , many too weak to move and with nowhere to go if they could . |
| 2 | She was too exhausted to resist and showed them into the living room . |
| 3 | I was too upset to eat or drink , but she sat with me for some time , talking gently to me , wiping away my tears , and helping me to recover . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | According to the itinerary Wednesday was a rest day but after a half-hearted attempt at browsing around the Keswick shops we decided that the call of the fells was too strong to resist and headed for the Langdales . |
| 6 | Unfortunately many patients present tumours too extensive to resect or they are unfit for such surgery . |
| 7 | His mouth was too dry to speak but he could not reach for the water now . |
| 8 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 9 | people were simply too lazy to try and remember . |
| 10 | The problem was , he was too lazy to try and stop being lazy , |
| 11 | Because the majority of college lecturers have yet to be convinced that there are better ways of conveying information — e.g. by the use of video or computer — or are too lazy to investigate or to try them . |
| 12 | Both figures are too high to ignore and prove , if nothing else , that the greatest threat to computer security comes from within . |
| 13 | As the rebels , sword in hand , ran after the retreating cavalry , sonic of the royal infantry stood their ground and tried to take them in the flank but the heavy rain had left most of their cartridges too damp to fire and the frustrated musketeers thereupon also took to their heels . |
| 14 | Suddenly , the boar had been faced with a cliff too steep to climb and had turned on its heel . |
| 15 | Some women decided to have their babies before they or their marriage became too old to begin or continue childbearing , as Eversley ( 1980 ) correctly forecast . |
| 16 | In the traditional hunting communities , those who were a burden — because they had become too old to hunt or to follow the family as it trekked to a new hunting ground — took themselves off to an ice-floe or an isolated rock and waited for death . |
| 17 | It 's about really the tragedy of a man who 's too old to change and too stupid to realize he needs to . |
| 18 | He was too old to breed or to ride another Nicandra . |
| 19 | Neutrophils , eosinophils , and basophils were too few to count and could not be analysed further . |
| 20 | Hopefully Oldham will prove me right … that SHOULD be an ok game as they are too crap to come and defend for 90 mins , so might try and attack us ( especially as its on the box ) . |
| 21 | Stop flying before it becomes too windy to move or fly the glider . |
| 22 | I was too self-conscious to notice but nodded anyway . |
| 23 | The nightmare of childhood lived daily by orphan children in Romania is another example of a state of dreadful innocence abused by adults which is too painful to comprehend and yet which has become part of the domain of childhood as understood in Britain , just as images of the abuse of children by adults are also part of our daily reference to the violent world of childhood . |
| 24 | She was far too quick-witted to complain and endured silently , but she managed to extract a promise of a new hat and a new dress from him , before getting up an hour later to tidy herself and prepare supper . |
| 25 | If the death penalty did deter , then so distinctive and so dramatic is the sanction that its effect ought also to be too marked to overlook or dispute . |
| 26 | The issues may be too delicate to handle or too difficult to put your finger on precisely . |
| 27 | There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life . |
| 28 | The interviews suggest that satisfaction or dissatisfaction are the prior conditions here , and that the feeling of having too much to do or not flows from them . |
| 29 | Every side had too much to lose and very little to gain . |
| 30 | Sometimes he had a bit too much to drink but that is n't particularly unusual , ’ said a spokesman . |