Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 2 | ‘ Quite frankly , Elinor- and in confidence — STG has been handling too many criminal cases for my liking . |
| 3 | Maybe it has been charging too little for the uncertainties involved , but that is another matter . |
| 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 then I thought maybe I 'd been expecting too much . |
| 6 | But she 'd been smoking too much , as well . |
| 7 | Anyway , she 'd been drinking too much , of late . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | He 'd been working too hard to spend time with women , and the courting of his wife had been very proper and unexciting . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 12 | The magazine had been consuming too much of his time even though , ideally , he ought to have been devoting more to it . |
| 13 | Mr Haynes explained that the earlier surge in borrowings , which had peaked at £5.2m in December 1990 , had arisen because the company had been publishing too many books on the general publishing side ( as opposed to the car and motor cycle manuals which are Haynes ' core activity ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Bernice decided that Ell had been watching too many films . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What had happened in Amsterdam at the Strickers ' had stunned him — as if he had been standing too long ‘ against a church wall ’ . |
| 18 | On a course recently someone suggested I had been talking too much and should be told to keep quiet . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've been watching too many late-night movies . |
| 20 | You 've been watching too many sick films about psychopaths . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I think you 've been watching too many movies . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I think you 've been watching too much television . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Jacqui , you 've been watching too much television . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've been watching too much Hill Street Blues , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Perhaps I 've been watching too much television yes . |
| 26 | That 's probably the trouble if you 've been eating too much . |
| 27 | They 've been reading too much space fiction . |
| 28 | ‘ I think you 've been reading too many thrillers , Superintendent . ’ |
| 29 | " And you 've been reading too many novels . |
| 30 | ‘ You 've been reading too many Sunday supplements . ’ |