Example sentences of "he was too [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was too young to be awarded a pilot 's certificate , but on November 16 he flew the Farman under the watchful eyes of Royal Aero Club observers and was granted pilot 's certificate No 368 . |
| 2 | He was too drunk to be driving , he thought , angling a glance at her wide , sloping thighs on the seat beside him . |
| 3 | One school of thought argued that he was too good to be true and his information was deliberately fed to the West by a faction within the Kremlin who opposed Khrushchev 's plan to send missiles to Cuba . |
| 4 | He was too innocent to be a stalking horse . |
| 5 | He was too scared to be otherwise . |
| 6 | After his death miracles were attributed to him and he was made a saint ; there were many who maintained that he was too ugly to be anything else . |
| 7 | At first Jane could hardly understand a word Mervyn said , but he was too good-humoured to be offended . |
| 8 | But he was too old to be Jonathan Reeves . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It had been fun , for a while , but he was too old to be entirely at ease with such fantasies . |
| 13 | Of course he was too old to be married to that young girl . |
| 14 | He was too excited to be able to stay indoors . |
| 15 | But a vet who examined the dog at the Halewood RSPCA home said he was too ill to be rehoused with a new family and it was kinder to put him down . |
| 16 | Mountbatten tried to tempt Bogyoke with the post of Deputy Inspector-General and the British rank of Brigadier : he was too shrewd to be side-tracked in that way . |