Example sentences of "too good [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wolves ! ’ shouted Giles drunkenly , ‘ wolves , that 's what they are , the pack of them , they 're traitors to the human race , scavengers , look at them , look at them , wolves is too good a word for them , jackals , hyenas , that 's what they are , hyenas ! ’ |
| 2 | He declined to hand over the cash , no matter what was threatened , and he was too good a salesman to be sacked , so the dealing manager yelled over to the accounts clerk : " Deduct £50 from his month 's wages . " |
| 3 | Of course , she missed her family , but her father 's promotion to foreign correspondent had been too good a chance for him to miss . |
| 4 | Fatty Harris , Rutshire 's club secretary , seconded for the day to do the commentary , had had rather too good a lunch in the Doggie Dins ' Tent and was waxing lyrical over the ancient names . |
| 5 | Sukey raised eyebrows when he ordered rather too good a bottle of claret in restaurants . |
| 6 | And despite the Ramblers ' Association suggestion of management etc , we have not made too good a job of protecting other wilderness areas open to the public . |
| 7 | He , and other OSF plaudits , are concerned that Unix System Labs Inc is doing too good a job of attracting the limelight . |
| 8 | This was too good a thing to be distracted from by pique . |
| 9 | As Robert Myers , Grumman 's laconic president , says now : ‘ I guess that sale was n't too good a move from the State Department 's standpoint . ’ |
| 10 | Mary-Claude was in Lebanon with Sarah having too good a time with her family for him to wish to cut it short . |
| 11 | The political turmoil in England following the deposition of Edward II was too good an opportunity for Bruce to miss , even though the truce of 1323 still had nine years to run . |
| 12 | A golf tournament with royal patronage was too good an opportunity for a publicity-minded company to miss . |
| 13 | ‘ This is too good an event for Scotland to lose , ’ Mr Wilson said . |
| 14 | I I had always too good an impression of everybody . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm much too good an actress for that . |