Example sentences of "she be too [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's too old for dolls . |
| 2 | She is too nice for words . |
| 3 | But on reflection , she fancied she was too late for New York . |
| 4 | But there were hollows in her cheeks and she was too thin for beauty . |
| 5 | Besides , she was too old for Santa Claus . |
| 6 | Obviously , at the end of her service , she was too old for breeding and stayed with her handler until she died at the age of sixteen . |
| 7 | Having decided that she was too old for nougat , Nancy stood for a moment admiring her pool flanked by statues painstakingly collected by her husband , two Henry Moores , a Giacometti and an Elizabeth Frink , all concreted to the ground and wired with electrical devices to a central burglar alarm in the Mondano police station . |
| 8 | She hoped to tell Sarah about the caelidhe on Monday , but a message came that she was too ill for work . |