Example sentences of "[pron] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to scatter my better conscience : |
| 2 | With one of my better inspirations . |
| 3 | ‘ Taking up rugby was one of my better decisions , ’ he said . |
| 4 | As it turned out it proved to be one of my better decisions ! |
| 5 | ‘ Well this is one of my better suits for one thing . ’ |
| 6 | Usually it is done during the summer , certainly for my better clothes . |
| 7 | All my possessions began to smell of smoke ; even my better clothes which I kept in a closed cupboard under the bunk . |
| 8 | I just have to agree with my Better Half on this one — he loves Poetry you know — why , his whole study in the Manse is absolutely chockabloc-jampacked with Poetry Books . |
| 9 | My Better Half 's always maintained , and I agree with him , if they do n't want to go to the Church then we wo n't force them . |
| 10 | I do n't like to blow my own trumpet but My Better Half could eat it to a band playing . |
| 11 | This statement has been echoed through the ages — by Plato : ‘ Love is the desire and pursuit of the whole ’ ; by Coleridge : ‘ Love is a desire of the whole being to be united to some thing , some being , felt necessary for its completeness ’ ; and by the man in the street ; ‘ My other half ’ , or even ‘ My better half ’ ; or in Erickson 's terms : ‘ the ‘ me in you ’ ’ . |
| 12 | I was persuaded against my better judgement to withdraw my request for a transfer . |
| 13 | She was understandably reluctant to talk of all changes , especially in the programming of exhibitions , ‘ it is against my better judgement to put anything to print at this stage . |
| 14 | So , much against my better judgement , I put my own shopping bag on top of his mother 's trolley and picked him up . |
| 15 | ‘ I abandoned my better judgement by sacrificing the flair of Merson and Limpar , and that saddened me , ’ added Graham . |
| 16 | I was given some advice about you — advice which I took against my better judgement , but it seems that advice was wrong . " |
| 17 | She took off her bright blue suit with the square shoulders , the outfit she had worn on the morning of her departure from Downing Street , that dreadful day , when betrayed by her Cabinet she had been persuaded ( ‘ against my better judgement , mark you ’ ) to vote for John Major . |
| 18 | It 's against my better judgement , you understand ? ’ |
| 19 | Some I 've known well , some I 've seduced against their better nature and my better nature , two I 've even married . |
| 20 | Before I regret the temporary arrival of my better nature , you 'd better let me make a few calls and see what I can do to get you home today . ’ |
| 21 | Against my better judgment , I asked the record man if he were able to bring impoverished blues singers over to Ireland . |
| 22 | A Glasgow friend , Tony Sykes , a great fisherman , at least he kept telling everyone he was , persuaded me against my better judgment to join him for a day 's salmon fishing on the River Ayr at Mauchline . |
| 23 | LAST WEEK I WANDERED off , rather against my better judgment , to kill a few hours at a thing called the Country Living Fair . |
| 24 | And so , despite all my years of philosophical training ( Rule of Life No. 2 : Do n't be a Mug ) and against all my better judgements ( Judgements in question , on a scale of 0–10 : 0 ) , I went . |
| 25 | As I walked to the hotel one of the Turkish rafters rushed towards me with a copy of Turkey 's most popular article about the first day of the trip with a picture of my good self and another British journalist , both wrapped in blankets looking forlorn . |
| 26 | Admiral Hawkins is , I take it , my good self . |
| 27 | My good self and my evil self were fighting for my mind and body — and my evil self was winning . |
| 28 | Was this a sign , a reward for my good deeds of the morning , a promise of better things to come ? |
| 29 | But at the time I was so excited by my good luck that I forgot what I owed to Joe . |
| 30 | ‘ Now , Biddy , ’ I said crossly , ‘ are you jealous of my good luck ? |