Example sentences of "it [be] too [adj] for her " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's no bus , and even if she had a bike it 's too far for her to ride both ways . ’ |
| 2 | It 's too heavy for her to carry , so she pulls it to pieces with her beak , holding it tightly in her talons . |
| 3 | If it 's too painful for her to accept that I want to look for Elaine , then I sha n't . ’ |
| 4 | By moving away from his first mate , the male prevents the female from assessing his true status until it is too late for her to do anything about it . |
| 5 | Here the incoherence has been identified as probably resolvable by a metaphoric reading , but the respondent obviously feels it is too invisible for her to be able , as yet , to resolve it successfully . |
| 6 | It was too dark for her to see anything , but from where he was , twenty feet up , she would be perfectly silhouetted against the open door . |
| 7 | He pulled the window up quickly and it was too dark for her to see him step back towards the house . |
| 8 | But it was too late for her to break the habit of dislike , and she turned away from me . |
| 9 | But the journey from Gridford to Shadwell was too long for Tim to bring his family , and Miss Miggs always said it was too far for her to travel to them . |
| 10 | It was too big for her when the boys left home , and she could n't really afford it any more . |
| 11 | Viola said she was going to sell the house , because it was too big for her ( Hilary had just moved out ) , and she found the stairs difficult — so what was she to do with Walter 's manuscripts and stuff , which were legally Mam 's ? |
| 12 | where it , she said it was too big for her and er she wanted something smaller , with a swap , well I did n't swap for the reason mine was overlooking the lake , it was in a better position , and er , then she told me the reason she wanted to swap cos er , she said it was too big cos her husband had died , I started to speak to her about when God 's kingdom comes on the earth , these dead ones will come back , these loved ones |
| 13 | ‘ I could not understand what she said , because it was too preposterous for her to say . ’ |
| 14 | It was necessary to rest it on the lap because it was too heavy for her to hold up , which meant she had to sit leaning forward in order to read . |
| 15 | I thought it was too heavy for her , she was only small . |
| 16 | It was too large for her and the wide sleeves of limp cotton hung from her freckled arms like rags thrown over a stick . |