Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] n't been very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 2 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |
| 3 | They have n't been very helpful . |
| 4 | Whereas in America the unions have seen it as an intrusion on their rights to collectively bargain , even though they have n't been very active in trying to organise them themselves . |
| 5 | Somebody did suggest that we ask Betty 's husband , but if he has n't been very helpful with the auditor , perhaps he 's not very keen on . |
| 6 | He has , he has n't been very active actually |
| 7 | Katharine replied that she had done shoulder-in and hand had a go at half-pass , but that it had n't been very successful ! |
| 8 | According to the papers , he had n't been very complimentary about me recently . |