Example sentences of "[adv prt] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I must also add that I was a trifle put out , and surprised , because it seemed to me that he was turning down a good opportunity . |
| 2 | His films were relatively few and he felt confident enough to turn down a good many more films than a hungrier actor might have felt was healthy . |
| 3 | You know the old saying about never look a gift horse in the mouth , well do n't turn down a good tip . |
| 4 | Moran said : ‘ Director Jack Walker 's money has enabled the manager to put down a good foundation and if we can get Roy coming in alongside the likes of Alan Shearer , the club will really be going places . ’ |
| 5 | I thought I would go and take one of the head ones and journey along down to that place and so , you know , is there any chance you slipping me down a good four long ones and if he says no , think again ? |
| 6 | And with Deane , you are forgetting the big guy turned down a BETTER contract at Sheff Wed to join Leeds . |
| 7 | Bombay has been a good ground for me in the past , but we need to put in a better performance than we have been doing . |
| 8 | Send in a good quality tape with no more than four songs . |
| 9 | ‘ Senility is known to set in a good deal earlier in many cases . ’ |
| 10 | It also brings in a good two-thirds of its profits from overseas . |
| 11 | He put in a good word for him at meetings of the Jockey Club . |
| 12 | He put in a good word for me and it went on from there . |
| 13 | The landlord of the inn which Ernest visited when his mother and his wife became too much for him knew of a coffee-house in the town which needed a kitchenmaid , and because he put in a good word for her , Ruth was given the job without references . |
| 14 | Any one of them would bring in a good profit . |
| 15 | The popular budget and mid-priced range from EB seems not to be with us any more , alas , but the importers are bringing in a good looking range from Gravity which they hope will take over from where EB left off — prices from about £45 to £55 . |
| 16 | It is our reasons for asserting a dependent conditional which bring in a good deal more than what is brought in by the conditional itself . |
| 17 | The modern ferry comes in a good deal farther south , beneath slabs of World War Two concrete fortifications . |
| 18 | ‘ The producers told me later that I got the job because of the winning chemistry between us — and that Pauline had put in a good word for me . |
| 19 | I have since asked my constituent for an update of the position and she has confirmed that the family has had to put in a good deal more extra money to finance both daughters than it had previously expected . |
| 20 | To Greeves , the orthodox believer , he wrote in January 1930 , ‘ In spite of all my recent changes of view I am still inclined to think that you can only get what you call Christ out of the Gospels by picking and choosing and slurring over a good deal . ’ |
| 21 | Yet in each of those insolvent years they had turned over a good half million . |
| 22 | He redeemed himself by sending over a good cross for P Reid to put the Olympic in front . |
| 23 | One person 's idea can influence and spark off a better idea in another , and through the interchange something can be created which is more useful than either could achieve alone . |
| 24 | Philip picked up the roll of wire from beside the hide and clipped off a good length of wire . |
| 25 | Molly and Mary both had things to do that evening , so Yanto had arranged to meet Billy in the Boar to round off a good weekend . |
| 26 | The back row of Webster , Lewis and debutant no.8 , Stuart Davies , was an impressive force throughout , the letter rounding off a good first match with a try . |
| 27 | The net effect of creating more available money could be to fire inflation , but the suggested increase in VAT would cream off a good deal of that extra money . |
| 28 | Before the break , record signing Lenny Johnrose got his one and only chance but Roger Freestone pulled off a good save . |
| 29 | And it used to be , it killed off a good part of our business this year , we used to do a roaring trade in back-dated diaries with accountancy lawyers , and it 's all gone . |
| 30 | The professional plans the presentation to suit the message and achieve the objective — not to ‘ put on a good show ’ . |