Example sentences of "too [adj] for [det] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only because you 're too old for that sort of thing . |
| 2 | He thought of following her and then changed his mind ; he was too old for that sort of gesture . |
| 3 | Or C , tell him you 're too old for that sort of mus , music ? |
| 4 | ‘ Getting too old for this sort of thing , ’ he told himself . |
| 5 | ‘ I am too old for this sort of thing . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm getting too old for this sort of thing , ’ he said . |
| 7 | He was still too confused for any sort of confrontation with the old man . |
| 8 | Under an Indian sun , the crowd moved briskly along the prom , chattering about the events of last night ( ‘ You would have thought she 'd be too tired for that sort of thing ’ ) and hoping , with an optimism undimmed by experience , that the day 's events would be as entertaining as they would be inspiring . |
| 9 | No this is too grand for that sort of thing . |
| 10 | They are far too civilised for that sort of thing in Bangladesh , but I kept thinking wistfully of T. S. Eliot 's lines in Sweeney Agonistes about ‘ a nice little white little missionary stew ’ . |