Example sentences of "[verb] n't been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had already put out feelers with local employers but they had n't been too keen on employing a well-known agitator ; even those who seemed sympathetic to the anti-nuclear cause did n't actually have work on offer . |
| 32 | He had n't been too well lately they said . |
| 33 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 34 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 35 | It had n't been too bad , apart from people being cold and wet and getting eaten all the time . |
| 36 | And some of the great families had n't been too happy about nomes being able to go where they pleased , without having to ask permission . |
| 37 | For weeks he had pushed thoughts of her out of his mind , and it had n't been too difficult at first . |
| 38 | It had n't been too difficult at first . |
| 39 | Apparently the school dessert had n't been too popular with the children : the remains of the custard had been put out in a bin , and this had attracted that great opportunist , the starling . |
| 40 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |
| 41 | ‘ Arthur Andersen felt that we had n't been as strong on the commercial management as we should have been . |
| 42 | The interview with Georg , too , while unpleasant , had n't been as terrible as Suzi had feared . |
| 43 | She had n't been as long in this job as her last one , yet she knew there was a positive danger that she might soon be scouring the situations vacant columns again . |
| 44 | Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger . |
| 45 | It had n't been as bad as she had feared . |
| 46 | She was upset , but later reflected it had n't been as bad as it could have been . |
| 47 | To judge by his continued expression of smug amusement , it had n't been entirely successful . |
| 48 | And Pete , who had n't been entirely unaware of some of the paths that such a newly-founded relationship might follow , suddenly found himself shifting into back-off mode . |
| 49 | Maxim had n't been entirely wrong about the Fight Game . |
| 50 | So Guido had n't been entirely wrong , after all ! |
| 51 | She had n't been sufficiently strong mentally , he believed , to will the money away from her destroyers . |
| 52 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 53 | Because I had n't been around much , I had n't been away from home |
| 54 | One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack . |
| 55 | The relief on Joe 's face would have been comic if it had n't been so worrying . |
| 56 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |
| 57 | There had n't been so much of that though the last few years . |
| 58 | See th history of the union is I mean er but er you know it 's a it 's a process is n't it in in a way the management have are probably really kicking themselves now for what 's happened you know I mean , their li latest statement is er , Well if there had n't been so much ou outside interference I 'm sure we 'd have been able to settle . |
| 59 | If they had n't been so excitable , they 'd have been as free as birds right now . |
| 60 | If she had n't been so upset , it would almost have been funny . |