Example sentences of "been too [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had been too close for comfort . |
| 2 | Walking down the aisle would have been too tame for Timothy , a carnival gaming agent from Florida , and Nony Tedjakasume , a computer analyst from Jakarta , Indonesia . |
| 3 | It had officially been called the York Minster , or similar , but that had been too passé for Soho 's artist colony . |
| 4 | ‘ Flashman 's behaviour has been too pathetic for words . ’ |
| 5 | The size of the taps throughout the house is one of the few exceptions to scale , as an exact one twelfth in the plumbing system would have been too small for water to run through the pipes . |
| 6 | Perhaps she had been too old for parenthood , and then it was very sad for a girl to lose her father in her teens . |
| 7 | ‘ Anyway , it 's been you who have been too busy for months . ’ |
| 8 | It had been too incredible for words to describe . |
| 9 | The lure had been too compelling for Heather to resist and he had the photographs to prove it . |