Example sentences of "too [adj] [art] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is why we know so little about Robert Simms , though most contemporaries thought him too moral a man to have acted dishonourably . |
| 2 | But Mr Utterson was too honest a man and a lawyer to do that . |
| 3 | ‘ Very much , ’ she replied — well , she had fallen a little in love with Mariánské Láznë , and he was much too sophisticated a man to want to be bored by her problems . |
| 4 | With far too masculine a man . |
| 5 | After Hugh 's dismissal in 1172 Louis VII kept the office vacant for some years : Hugh had been too great a man for it to be wise or safe to raise up a successor to him . |
| 6 | He was asked to stand for parliament , but declined , having no particular relish for party-politics ; he was too large-hearted a man for that . |
| 7 | I was too big a man to get through the caves , but I listened hard and was sure I heard something . |
| 8 | He made it clear to Law that he did not think that Law was well qualified to be leader and that he reserved the right to contest any future vacancy , but Austen was too loyal a man to conspire ; relations were not very friendly , but there was total cooperation . |
| 9 | He put his arm around her waist and smiled at her and she thought , with a sharp twinge of guilt , that he was much too nice a man to use this way . |
| 10 | He would n't be able to bring himself to touch her , because if he did , the contempt he felt for her would be extended to himself , and she thought Luke Scott was too intelligent a man to submit to anything so destructive . |
| 11 | ‘ He did n't seem too bad a man all the same , ’ said Pooley . |