Example sentences of "[be] too [adj] for this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , feeling that perhaps he was being rather uncomplimentary to Dorothy , he added untruthfully : I 'd ask you , honey , only you 're too young for this one . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 're too good for this job . |
| 3 | Oh come on , you ca n't both stir it , I 'm going to get very cross , I 'm too tired for this . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm too old for this ! |
| 5 | When I 'm too old for this line , I reckon Europe should just about be ready for me . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm too old for this game . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm too old for this , Tamsin . ’ |
| 8 | One , one point that was made to me is , is it might be , it might be too late for this , but it might be helpful for some staff from residential establishments to actually get to understand what official visits are as well . |
| 9 | If the hall is too narrow for this and many entrance ways are barely more than a corridor , try to get in a long bench or a very narrow console , or at the very least a stool and a shelf . |
| 10 | If the bottom is too weedy for this I continually re-bait and cast . |
| 11 | It is too pure for this impure world , therefore they condemn it as vile . |
| 12 | This means that the three remaining days will be packed more tightly and although it is too late for this academic year we will in subsequent years have one day at the start of each term . |
| 13 | And that leads to the third , less obvious , reason : the market-place itself , to work efficiently , needs consumers who know how prices compare , and who act on that knowledge buying at the right price , not buying if the price is too high for this to have an influence on prices , through traders who set attractive prices competing successfully against traders who set inflated prices , it is by no means necessary for all consumers to be actively price-conscious . |
| 14 | Avoiding the face , which is too sensitive for this treatment , make bold sweeping movements over each part of the body as in Fig. 2 . |
| 15 | They arranged them on the shelves : ‘ There 's too many for this shelf . |
| 16 | It 's too cold for this ! |
| 17 | ‘ I am too young for this , ’ she said and handed him an article in return on the male menopause . |
| 18 | ‘ I am too old for this sort of thing . ’ |
| 19 | The justification for government action on efficiency grounds is that the costs of organizing private sector collective action are too great for this to occur in many cases . |
| 20 | Two days of forced marching without food towards a prisoner-of-war camp was too much for this free spirit from Baldersdale and he escaped . |
| 21 | Her partner insisted that the time gap was too great for this to be anything other than two separate orgasms . |
| 22 | He was too good for this place . |
| 23 | Shit , she was too old for this . |
| 24 | ‘ I told you it was too tight for this scene , Red . ’ |
| 25 | The United States was too important for this to be true . |