Example sentences of "he have be [verb] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been working too hard to spend time with women , and the courting of his wife had been very proper and unexciting . |
| 2 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What had happened in Amsterdam at the Strickers ' had stunned him — as if he had been standing too long ‘ against a church wall ’ . |
| 6 | He 's been screwin' too much for his own good . |