Example sentences of "too [adj] for his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dress was too rich for his usual strenuous hunting , nor were there hounds abroad , or Iorwerth would have known and signalled it long ago . |
| 2 | He is too absurd for his own good . |
| 3 | The manservant who let them in looked too young and too tall for his black coat . |
| 4 | Mansell 's commitment to the job has led some to suggest he is too brave for his own good . |
| 5 | He 'd thought her a little too old for his own purposes , but always assumed she was there for the taking . |
| 6 | ‘ Stephen can be too generous for his own good , ’ fitzAlan said tersely , ‘ and is all too prone to listen to well-meant but foolish advice . |
| 7 | According to her , he was too clever for his own good . |
| 8 | Smooth bloody everything , he thought , smooth voice , smooth clothes , altogether too smooth for his own good . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was too confining for his poetic mind for he said of it , ‘ The only good I ever got from it was the memory of the words ‘ sonus disilientis aquae ’ and the old wall covered with weeds opposite the school windows ’ . |
| 10 | But from what I hear he was too fussy for his own good . |
| 11 | Michael Fallon superior school swot who feels that he is too good for his fellow men and appears to be out of his depth in his Government post . |
| 12 | Top seed Peter Hayden forget to put his clock forward and turned up too late for his first round match , in an unhappy day for the seeds . |
| 13 | He went back to school a misfit , troublesome , confused , way behind in his studies , far too independent for his own good and on trial . |
| 14 | But two ill-fated sojourns to Britain , where he found the language , the climate and the cuisine too harsh for his exotic tastes , left him vowing never to return . |
| 15 | Rohan drew up a chair with gilded legs which looked altogether too fragile for his tall frame . |
| 16 | The monster still struggled to climb through a door too small for his immense frame . |
| 17 | He flips way off the handle , often too ridiculous for his own good , but his unfaltering sincerity and self-belief is steadying and dispels any giddy embarrassment brought on by such behaviour . |
| 18 | Feshaie is a bullet-headed 12 year old who wears a striped T-shirt and shorts that are too big for his skinny frame . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's getting too big for his focking black boots , that feller is . ’ |
| 20 | It would not be too difficult for his legal representative to brand her as rash and irresponsible — scarcely attributes the judge would be looking for in little Kirsty 's potential guardian ! |
| 21 | But Prince is either too frivolous or too religious for his flighty fancies to be pinned down to this discourse of responsibility and constructive intervention . |
| 22 | That Tom was too nice for his own good . |
| 23 | But he was ‘ too eccentric for his own good . ’ |
| 24 | There were times when Jotan was too perceptive for his own good . |
| 25 | He was a thin man with a hooked nose and dark stubble on his chin which made it seem too weighty for his cadaverous face . |