Example sentences of "he have been [verb] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 2 | What a fool he had been to waste so much time being " poetic " and not eating . |
| 3 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 4 | He had been saving as much as possible from the grant in the hope of amassing a small sum which would tide him over until he could find a local job . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had been hurt so much by life that he had to laugh at it and there was not a trace of bitterness in him . |
| 9 | He thought he was covered to drive another vehicle , and said he had been told as much on the telephone by his insurers . |
| 10 | His nature had been over-mature and he had been focused so much on his career that he had never had a great deal of time for his family . |
| 11 | He 's been screwin' too much for his own good . |