Example sentences of "had not been too [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had brought a couple of dresses with her because she had not been too sure about the heat . |
| 2 | It seemed all of her father 's old acquaintances had not been too impressed by his choice of wife . |
| 3 | The truth had not been too difficult to discover . |
| 4 | The man she had just interviewed , a Mr Liam Groves , had not been too happy to be interviewed on Boxing Day . |
| 5 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 6 | Until he was seven his life at home though poverty stricken had not been too bad . |
| 7 | For some reason he had not been too worried out it last night , nor was he now . |
| 8 | Her mother had n't been too pleased with Kevin as a son-in-law . |
| 9 | If I had n't been too dumb I could have come to Mars-U as well , then I would n't have been alone . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had n't been too well lately they said . |
| 12 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 13 | Laurence had given her some money which fortunately she had n't been too proud to accept . |
| 14 | It had n't been too bad , apart from people being cold and wet and getting eaten all the time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For weeks he had pushed thoughts of her out of his mind , and it had n't been too difficult at first . |
| 17 | It had n't been too difficult at first . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |