Example sentences of "[pers pn] be too [adj] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in Fever 103 , she writes , ‘ I am too pure for you or anyone . |
| 2 | It 's like a toy town I 've put away in the cupboard because I 'm too old for it and here it is , still waiting for me . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm too old for it now , but thanks for the thought , ’ Morrow eventually managed . |
| 4 | I know I 'm too old for you , but believe me , I 'll take more care of you than a younger man would . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm too old for you , Felicity . ’ |
| 6 | Well , now that I 'm too big for me boots , d' you think me legs 'll sprout ? ’ |
| 7 | I 'm too fast for you . |
| 8 | She said I was too much for her , and I assume she thought she was being admiring , though she certainly meant I was not enough . |
| 9 | This was becoming Stress City and I was too old for it . |
| 10 | I was too quick for them ! ’ |
| 11 | Thought I might have got a chance at Pat Weaver , but you 're too efficient for me , Mister Doyle . ’ |
| 12 | You 're too big for us . |
| 13 | You 're too big for us . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're too ugly for her . ’ |
| 15 | No , of course not , she 's too young for you to have been named after her . |
| 16 | Leave her for me , she 's too tricky for you , I 'll see to her ! |
| 17 | Later , he cornered Duffy and demanded to know who she was ; Duffy tried to warn him off : ‘ She 's too posh for you . ’ |
| 18 | She 's too expensive for you , even after allowing for devaluation . |
| 19 | ‘ She 's too good for us , ’ Minna huffs . |
| 20 | She 's too good for us . |
| 21 | A terrible song from a concert at Blackpool echoed back from when I was a tiny girl : " I do n't want her you can have her she 's too fat for me . " |
| 22 | Besides , she 's too old for it at forty-five . |
| 23 | She wanted a new pushchair but to me she , she 's too big for it . |
| 24 | But it seemed to Thomas that she was too doughty for him , somehow , and the hat finished it . |
| 25 | She was too good for him . |
| 26 | She had her faults but she was too good for him , and what sort of father would he have made for my kids ? ’ |
| 27 | Though she had said she was too young for them she had been enraptured by them in a tiny jeweller 's in Pollensa but Fernando had hurried her away saying he would buy her the real thing one day . |
| 28 | ‘ She was too intense for me , if you want to know . |
| 29 | She was too old for him , it was true , but at least she was there . |
| 30 | It never would , she was too sophisticated for him , and he was too clever for her . |