Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 2 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 3 | That 's probably the trouble if you 've been eating too much . |
| 4 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 5 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 6 | But she 'd been smoking too much , as well . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nisodemus , though , had definitely been getting too much fresh air . |
| 9 | It would have been expecting too much to imagine that the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ might disappear overnight in 1945 , disintegrating along with the mortal remains of the Führer himself and being scattered with the ashes of the Third Reich . |
| 10 | And then I thought maybe I 'd been expecting too much . |
| 11 | The job of communicating is very important indeed and maybe one of our problems is that we have been doing so much within the business that we are not ready to communicate to the outside world that it perhaps does n't understand sufficiently what our targets are . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You look very pale , ’ she went on ; ‘ you 've been doing too much , my dear . |
| 15 | You 've been doing too much . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | I thought that his appearance meant he had really been suffering very much , longing for me to give up my work , and had only refrained from asking me to do so out of respect for my ‘ rights ’ . |
| 18 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 19 | He 's been screwin' too much for his own good . |
| 20 | The whisper is that Faldo has not been saying too much about how well he is playing for fear of tempting fate . |
| 21 | The whisper is that Faldo has not been saying too much about how well he is playing for fear of tempting fate . |
| 22 | For good measure , and , presumably in case anybody thinks he is indulging in the negative campaigning we have all been hearing so much about , he praises the Lib Dems as offering a ‘ more egalitarian , democratic and ecologically responsible [ manifesto ] than Labour 's ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe you really do have that fast , incisive mind I 've been hearing so much about lately ? ’ |
| 24 | they 've gave us since we 've been creating that much she 's had been in to see Mr she said and he says oh no he says er that 's not right Brenda , he says er mine are all guaranteed until they 're earning that money he says you ca n't just do it |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They 've been reading too much space fiction . |
| 27 | been reading too much in this Sunday Post . |
| 28 | The magazine had been consuming too much of his time even though , ideally , he ought to have been devoting more to it . |
| 29 | But I suppose if you lose your job , and your dignity … and he 'd probably been drinking too much , which they say does n't help . |
| 30 | And whoever had done those carvings on the wall , Twoflower thought charitably , had probably been drinking too much . |