Example sentences of "have not been [adv] happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man she had just interviewed , a Mr Liam Groves , had not been too happy to be interviewed on Boxing Day . |
| 2 | In a war-time article on Smollett he remarked that several writers had recently tried to ‘ revive the picaresque tradition ’ , instancing Waugh and Aldous Huxley — adding that the experiment had not been entirely happy , if only because they had betrayed a sense of strain in an effort to be shocking . |
| 3 | He had not been so happy with the farmland which went with the Fish ; his town talents ( he was from Cockermouth , about ten miles away ) had given him neither the patience nor the experience for such niggling country work and — as he was a man who took advice badly — his neighbours had soon left him alone to rot alone . |
| 4 | It was n't much of a place , and Toby had n't been particularly happy there . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Iberia 's forays into Latin America have not been entirely happy . |
| 7 | Some bookmakers have not been entirely happy with their new placing in the Down Royal set-up and there had been grumblings about taking the matter to a higher authority . |
| 8 | For this reason I have to say we have not been too happy with-her work on joint projects . |
| 9 | ‘ I have given 100pc but my play has been affected because I have not been mentally happy . ’ |
| 10 | It reminded Franca of some old happiness ; and she thought I have n't been really happy since that very first day when he said there was someone else but I was n't to worry . |