Example sentences of "[pron] be too [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are all suggestions I 've been given , but most of them are too vague for people to do anything with . |
| 2 | I am too miserable for words . |
| 3 | When she came back she would say , ‘ You think I am too old for sex , eh ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm too young for pearls , ’ she teased , ‘ and I have shoes enough , but I can never have enough of romance . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm too old for pantomimes , I 'm an adult . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm too old for kiss and catch . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm too plain for jewels ! |
| 8 | I had n't noticed before , I was too upset for details like that . ’ |
| 9 | I was too concerned for caution . |
| 10 | He thought I was too silly for words , but he made it possible for me to keep Perdita , so I 'll always be grateful . ’ |
| 11 | There was a heavy sensation in my stomach : apart from this feeling , which was too dull for pain , my body was uninhabited . |
| 12 | They only approached the Kulturstiftung der Länder ( the federal funding agency that finances the purchase of works considered vital to Germany 's heritage ; see The Art Newspaper , No. 13 , December 1991 , p. 4 ) two days before the 15 January deadline , which was too late for action to be taken . |
| 13 | You ‘ tink you 're too good for Dingle ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 're too old for sex at forty , or is it forty-one ? ’ |
| 15 | I told her you might want the pieces and the beautiful dress , but she just said you were too big for dolls anyway . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ She 's too old for dolls . |
| 17 | She is too nice for words . |
| 18 | But on reflection , she fancied she was too late for New York . |
| 19 | But there were hollows in her cheeks and she was too thin for beauty . |
| 20 | Besides , she was too old for Santa Claus . |
| 21 | Obviously , at the end of her service , she was too old for breeding and stayed with her handler until she died at the age of sixteen . |
| 22 | Having decided that she was too old for nougat , Nancy stood for a moment admiring her pool flanked by statues painstakingly collected by her husband , two Henry Moores , a Giacometti and an Elizabeth Frink , all concreted to the ground and wired with electrical devices to a central burglar alarm in the Mondano police station . |
| 23 | She hoped to tell Sarah about the caelidhe on Monday , but a message came that she was too ill for work . |
| 24 | When painting or drawing Oska , who was too Nordic for Minton 's taste , he achieved an objectivity that is lacking in the poorly co-ordinated Cornish Boy at a Window ( Government Art Collection ) for which Eric Verrico posed . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ We are too shocked for words . |
| 26 | A visit to the market on Wednesdays was a highlight of the week when we were too young for school . |
| 27 | ‘ They are too graceful for claws , but they are very like claws . |
| 28 | They are too lethal for joyriders . ’ |
| 29 | This week alone , Twink , Doyle , Pollock , Smott and Deere have all said they will not be playing for the ‘ Stiffs ’ next season as they are TOO GOOD for Sunday League football ! |
| 30 | Check the use-by date on the packet because some condoms break or tear because they are too old for use . |