Example sentences of "he be [adv] old [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was too old to be Jonathan Reeves . ’ |
| 2 | The young man with her was neither of the men who had temporarily lent her their names : too young to be a discarded husband , he was too old to be a son . |
| 3 | He was too old to be called up ( a lost generation of men who were too young for the first war , too old for the second ) . |
| 4 | Lansdowne came first because he had been leader in the House of Lords since 1902 ; he was too old to be a rival to Law and he cooperated with him fully , though not without some condescension . |
| 5 | It had been fun , for a while , but he was too old to be entirely at ease with such fantasies . |
| 6 | Of course he was too old to be married to that young girl . |