Example sentences of "not a very happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desmond Haynes ' first taste of Test captaincy was not a very happy experience , going for a duck in the first innings , dropping a catch and demeaning himself with the sledging as the match slipped away . |
| 2 | The general picture obtained for decimal place value is not a very happy one . |
| 3 | That 's to say , Madeleine is really just a memory now — and not a very happy one . |
| 4 | Joe admits to being ‘ not a very happy person . ’ |
| 5 | It 's not a very happy situation for either of us . ’ |
| 6 | Not a very happy ending that . |
| 7 | Oh well Mickey , not a very happy man . |
| 8 | When she married a Kent farm labourer her own relatives disowned her : ‘ it was n't a very happy thing , you see , that she married into this family … |
| 9 | It was n't a very happy movie . |
| 10 | It was n't a very happy family , her father , who worked long hours as an engineer , hit her mother and sometimes the children too , but he never hit Noreen . |
| 11 | And the peedie fairy was just delighted to start with but soon realized that there was something kind of fishy going on and it was n't a very happy place . |
| 12 | So it was n't a very happy island right enough . |
| 13 | It was n't a very happy smile . |