Example sentences of "too [adj] for his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manservant who let them in looked too young and too tall for his black coat . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was too confining for his poetic mind for he said of it , ‘ The only good I ever got from it was the memory of the words ‘ sonus disilientis aquae ’ and the old wall covered with weeds opposite the school windows ’ . |
| 3 | Michael Fallon superior school swot who feels that he is too good for his fellow men and appears to be out of his depth in his Government post . |
| 4 | But two ill-fated sojourns to Britain , where he found the language , the climate and the cuisine too harsh for his exotic tastes , left him vowing never to return . |
| 5 | Rohan drew up a chair with gilded legs which looked altogether too fragile for his tall frame . |
| 6 | The monster still struggled to climb through a door too small for his immense frame . |
| 7 | Feshaie is a bullet-headed 12 year old who wears a striped T-shirt and shorts that are too big for his skinny frame . |
| 8 | It would not be too difficult for his legal representative to brand her as rash and irresponsible — scarcely attributes the judge would be looking for in little Kirsty 's potential guardian ! |
| 9 | But Prince is either too frivolous or too religious for his flighty fancies to be pinned down to this discourse of responsibility and constructive intervention . |
| 10 | He was a thin man with a hooked nose and dark stubble on his chin which made it seem too weighty for his cadaverous face . |