Example sentences of "too good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe he thinks being a Sergeant in the Engineers makes him too good to work for ordinary folk . |
| 2 | This was too good a thing to be distracted from by pique . |
| 3 | Categories include Superweed , Hanging 's Too Good For It ( for hanging baskets ) , and The Most Mis-shapen Potato . |
| 4 | Too good to be true ! |
| 5 | Martin even cooked , every pan in the place , ‘ nothing too good for my wife ! ’ |
| 6 | Not at all — the price was too good — MacDonald 's factor was far too busy agreeing a price for the young folk that he sold to the Carolina merchants . |
| 7 | Even his extraordinarily fecund language struggled to reassert the recollection : ‘ the ideal couple , ’ ‘ the beautiful inspiration , ’ ‘ illusion and reality , ’ ( by which he meant that it was simply too good to be true ; too perfect to last — a forbidding afterthought ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They are too good to be forgotten , or some of them are . |
| 10 | Wednesday may have started the season like a Second Division side , but for all the shortcomings exposed in the League , they are still much too good for opponents from the Fourth . |
| 11 | If we stick with 15 per cent rates until the Budget , the prospects for positive growth in the economy do not look too good . ’ |
| 12 | Tiriac is still miffed that the ATP final did not come to Stuttgart : ‘ The ATP told me to join the auction , but I am too good to have to do that . ’ |
| 13 | Its villages look too good to be true . |
| 14 | In print this wo n't look too good over breakfast , but I have to say there is more to this chapter of our being then we know . |
| 15 | ‘ Not too good , ’ I replied , ‘ Anything to eat or drink ? |
| 16 | It is n't too good to be true though — your admission fee just gets you in there — all activities cost extra . |
| 17 | Its chassis is almost too good . |
| 18 | ‘ Whoever killed Charlie , hanging 'd be too good for him . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Anyway , I told you , I was n't feeling too good . |
| 20 | I got to be careful crossing the road , specially when I ai n't feeling too good . |
| 21 | I do n't feel too good . |
| 22 | Nothing is too good ( that is to say , too expensive ) for God . |
| 23 | Too good to be pigeonholed under ‘ New Country . ’ |
| 24 | Croghan Star ( 2.00 ) and On Tap ( 2.30 ) should prove too good for their solitary opponents , while Wigtown Boy ( 3.05 ) has only two to beat in the Red Alligator Handicap Chase . |
| 25 | Croghan Star ( 2.00 ) and On Tap ( 2.30 ) should prove too good for their solitary opponents , while Wigtown Boy ( 3.05 ) has only two to beat in the Red Alligator Handicap Chase . |
| 26 | It is too good to last , of course . |
| 27 | DAVID INSHAW 'S painting of ‘ The Cricket Game ’ in the lazy valley of the River Bride might make the fat green chalk hills around look too good to be true . |
| 28 | David was absolutely marvellous , a tremendous show , and when it was over Dawson said to me , ‘ Ken , it 's a marvellous act but it 's too good — when can I book it ? ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | This points to the real worry about 1991 : not that it will not be good enough , but that it will be too good . |