Example sentences of "[vb past] n't been [adv] successful " in BNC.
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| 1 | We paid over $50m for it , and that , for a small British company in those days going into a market where British companies had n't been notably successful , was seen as a very big commitment . |
| 2 | But to find her meant giving him the slip , and she had n't been too successful at that the last time . |
| 3 | To judge by his continued expression of smug amusement , it had n't been entirely successful . |
| 4 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 5 | 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 ! |