Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [be] particularly [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His life had not been particularly eventful or distinguished . |
| 2 | The anti-Semitism that he there encountered made him more conscious of the Jewishness that had not been particularly important to him before . |
| 3 | In the first edition of this book it was argued that levels of controversy over social policies since 1951 had not been particularly high . |
| 4 | Her life had not been particularly adventurous and at school , where her friend Rosie Fortinbras courted adventure , she had been regarded as a dull girl and a plodding worker . |
| 5 | Read had not been particularly interested in my political book ( which I had submitted to him in fulfilment of the option clause in my contract with Routledge , so I got together some more representative pieces and sent them to Eliot , no least because he had published my article on ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ in The Criterion , and because I had again spoken about my plans at our first meeting after the war . |
| 6 | Her career in movies from the age of seventeen had not been particularly distinguished . |
| 7 | He 'd taken her to church , he 'd taken her to lunch and she had n't been particularly gracious about any of it . |
| 8 | It was n't much of a place , and Toby had n't been particularly happy there . |