Example sentences of "'s [vb pp] a [adv] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you make a mistake , it 's just not possible to go back and retrieve it , and for a selector to say , ‘ Well , I do n't think this person 's made a very good case , I 'm sure if we gave them another chance they would make a better one . ’ |
| 2 | Yeah he 's made , he 's made a very good job |
| 3 | I said , he 's done a pretty good job . |
| 4 | So what they had done it had a big slab there and it had got on it er The World 's Largest Slate Mine , and perhaps you 've seen it yourself they 've rubbed the T off and they put V and somebody 's done a very good job of it er in the same paint and everything . |
| 5 | You 're in danger of every time you 're praising that person , they 're going to be sitting back waiting for the straight away , so you could n't , if you go up to somebody and they 've generally done a superb job and you ca n't fault him , and he knows he 's done a really good job , but he 's just sitting back waiting for you to way what , what you 've done wrong . |
| 6 | Could be ages to grow like that , now it 's grown a real good hedge , in fact no it ai n't a good real hedge it 's got massive great gaping holes in it |
| 7 | You can go from being a total novice to someone who 's got a reasonably good idea by the end of one week . |
| 8 | Darwin 's in effect in this passage is saying no , I do n't think that 's so at all , I think that this common pattern that all vertebrates have is simple the adaptive features of the common ancestor of the vertebrates , and I think he 's got a jolly good case . |
| 9 | Tessa Dahl 's famous father Roald certainly knew what made a good children 's book , and judging by The Same But Different , with illustrations by Arthur Robins ( Puffin , £2.99 ) , she 's got a pretty good idea too . |
| 10 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 11 | He 's got a very good serve , but the percentage of points he makes from the baseline is better than with the volley . |
| 12 | The big prize looks sure to be decided by a special scoring table which will gauge which man performs best on the night at Crystal Palace and Christie insisted : ‘ Colin 's got a very good chance I reckon only Zelezny and Morceli will challenge him . ’ |
| 13 | He 's got a really good band now , too , which I saw about three months ago . |
| 14 | Maybe you were neither of these but in the pocey extension to the left as you go in where all the posers and knobs hang out ( even though it 's got a really good 6ft TV there ) … |
| 15 | Come on look at her yeah , she 's got a really good figure , she 's not ugly she 's got a good er I mean she 's really tanned and that , they like that and she 's really cocky is n't she and she wo n't take any shit from anyone |
| 16 | Well , Derek had another winner , he 's had a very good week Pam , by his standards . |
| 17 | Yeah , he 's had a really good sleep actually . |
| 18 | Christopher 's had a really good time so have I so has Robert . |