Example sentences of "[was/were] too [adj] for we " in BNC.
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| 1 | We men , we know not what loftiness we might reach if only for a few small hours we could by carefulness of life , morally and physically so exact ourselves that scarce any utmost purity of air were too perfect for us . |
| 2 | He told the representative body that the talks were too confidential for us to be let into the secret . |
| 3 | They were too strong for us at this stage , and beat us by nine wickets . |
| 4 | The blueshifted features were too weak for us to measure their positions . |
| 5 | The numbers involved ( in detailed cross-tabulations not reproduced in Appendix I ) were too small for us to be sure about this . |
| 6 | We went to bed — she was going to catch a plane and Dad said it was too late for us to go to the airport . |
| 7 | And it was just a pity that the material she was given or told us to read , she said was too advanced for us . |
| 8 | Says Cedella , whose father 's record Iron Lion Zion , is at No. 5 a decade after his death : ‘ Only the boys were allowed to go on tour with Dad because he thought it was too rough for us girls . |