Example sentences of "[was/were] too old [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The participants in the discussion accepted this for themselves because they were too old to change , they said . |
| 2 | Most of these girls were not fiancées but daughters , come to join their parents ; the internal examinations were used to claim that they were too old to come as dependants . |
| 3 | They housed children who could not find foster parents or who were too old to fit easily into a new family environment . |
| 4 | Because in the poorer streets , if you saw — the neighbours in the street knew an old couple , they were too old to work … and if you saw an old blue van with a coat of arms on it with an old horse , old grey horse driven by an old grey man , drive up the street , stop outside the door , you knew that the old couple were on the way to the workhouse . |
| 5 | An added problem in this case was that she was too old to give unsworn testimony . |
| 6 | In the eyes of Scots fans everywhere , he needed a good doing over and if Tiger McKay was too old to give him , one then there was always Wild Bill Bremner . |
| 7 | She was said to be upset because she was too old to use the centre where the party was held in Whitley Bay . |
| 8 | The villagers responded to the call : Bassett was too old to die . |
| 9 | Now that she was too old to dance regularly she would understudy the Girls and they all recognized her as a marvellous dancer : |
| 10 | In 1986/87 a farmer client sold his prize dairy herd because he found that at 67 he was too old to cope with the rigorous work involved . |
| 11 | Perhaps , in the years to come , she would get Mrs Aggie to move , but that would only be when she was too old to take the cart out . |
| 12 | He was too old to breed or to ride another Nicandra . |
| 13 | Too young to rule effectively in person , he was too old to make a minority an attractive prospect . |
| 14 | Too young to rule effectively in person , he was too old to make a minority an attractive prospect . |
| 15 | he took the test after being told that at more than 50 he was too old to learn . |
| 16 | Mr Tholen is a man who can not resist a challenge and when , just before his 50th birthday , he was told he was too old to learn anything new , he set out to prove that theory wrong by learning to fly . |
| 17 | Christie 's critics had said that at 32 he was too old to beat the best sprinters in the world . |
| 18 | When I insisted , she flew into a rage , and the newly-weds had a very public row in the course of which I was termed a wet-rag and a killjoy who was too old to have fun any more . |
| 19 | Walking towards the station , having promised to bring back with her all sorts of expensive food items Tina had requested from Selfridges ' Food Hall , Cecilia thought how much she liked living on her own and that at seventy-six she was too old to have Jasper and Bienvida running around her , fond of them as she was , not to mention Tina 's boyfriends and the odd hours she kept and her lying in bed till noon . |
| 20 | Did you think perhaps I was too old to have a grandmother still alive ? ’ |
| 21 | He had never been too sure as , technically , she was too old to come under the heading of pretty . |
| 22 | However , the realisation that he would eventually inherit the farm at Skiplam , when Maisie 's father was too old to run it , sweetened the pill . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought I was too old to run this year and I did n't train for it , ’ he said . |