Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I thought maybe I 'd been expecting too much . |
| 2 | On a course recently someone suggested I had been talking too much and should be told to keep quiet . |
| 3 | Perhaps I 've been watching too much television yes . |
| 4 | Anyway , she 'd been drinking too much , of late . |
| 5 | But she 'd been smoking too much , as well . |
| 6 | apparently she does n't know why they sacked her she said , they sacked apparently something to do with she 'd been asking too many questions or something and but she |
| 7 | ‘ I think you 've been watching too much television . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Jacqui , you 've been watching too much television . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've been watching too much Hill Street Blues , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been watching too many late-night movies . |
| 11 | You 've been watching too many sick films about psychopaths . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I think you 've been watching too many movies . ’ |
| 13 | That 's probably the trouble if you 've been eating too much . |
| 14 | ‘ I think you 've been reading too many thrillers , Superintendent . ’ |
| 15 | " And you 've been reading too many novels . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've been reading too many Sunday supplements . ’ |
| 17 | You 've been playing too much football |
| 18 | ‘ You look very pale , ’ she went on ; ‘ you 've been doing too much , my dear . |
| 19 | You 've been doing too much . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 21 | What you should recognize is that it is a warning sign that you have been doing too much , and that you need to get away from the patient , at least for short periods in the day , if not for some days or weeks . |
| 22 | ‘ I expect she 's been sitting too long in the sun , ’ she said . |
| 23 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 24 | They 've been reading too much space fiction . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . ’ |
| 26 | Maybe it has been charging too little for the uncertainties involved , but that is another matter . |
| 27 | He 'd been working too hard to spend time with women , and the courting of his wife had been very proper and unexciting . |
| 28 | Like most defectors , Lyalin was suffering from delusions of grandeur and it was hard to judge whether he had been reading too much of Pincher 's material or books by Le Queux dating from the turn of the century . |
| 29 | The Russian race , on which the competitors were accommodated on a train following the race route , proved to be a harrowing experience for Zarei , but not because he had been doing too much running . |
| 30 | What had happened in Amsterdam at the Strickers ' had stunned him — as if he had been standing too long ‘ against a church wall ’ . |