Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [v-ing] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I expect she 's been sitting too long in the sun , ’ she said . |
| 2 | For those who love Churchill partly because of his warts and feel they have been waiting too long to hear the case for the prosecution put eloquently and with impeccable soundness , ‘ it is a delight ’ . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd been working too hard to spend time with women , and the courting of his wife had been very proper and unexciting . |
| 4 | What had happened in Amsterdam at the Strickers ' had stunned him — as if he had been standing too long ‘ against a church wall ’ . |
| 5 | It 's been getting too frightening . |