Example sentences of "had good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even in those days , the South Tyne had good runs of salmon and we often stood by the weir at Haltwhistle in September , watching salmon fighting their way upstream . |
| 32 | Louis XIV had good try and Napoleon an even better one . |
| 33 | She had good teeth too , I noticed . |
| 34 | Even the teenage mothers ' infants had good chances of surviving the first year of life , if their fathers were 25–29 years old . |
| 35 | Both West Ham and Leeds had good chances to score with Pemberton hitting the post during the second half . |
| 36 | As the game entered the closing stages , both sides had good chances to score ; the first fell to Steve Jenkins who was evaded by inches from Mickey Wiggins ' cross , whilst up the other end , Warner had to be on his toes when he held a point blank header from John Parry . |
| 37 | Nor did Greek interest in Persia cease after the fifth century : a apart from Plato , several fourth-century commentators had good things to say , like the Oxyrhynchus Historian ( xix Bartoletti ) , who comments on the way Persian commanders deliberately withheld payments from ( Greek ) mercenaries ; this would put them more in their power . |
| 38 | Very good at setting up cars , he was less fortunate in his choice of engineers and , when he had good ones , did not know how to leave well enough alone . |
| 39 | When depressed she was beset with ‘ sudden sorrow and grief ’ , afraid of eternal damnation , ‘ mourned and sorrowed as though God had forsaken her ’ , suffering her ‘ to have as many evil thoughts as before she had good ones ’ . |
| 40 | To those who argued that the policy was deluded , its sponsors could answer that it had good aims in view ; indeed , the more glaring the disappointment , the more glowing the colours in which those aims were painted . |
| 41 | Perhaps her publishers had good libel insurance . |
| 42 | My father was a gardener who never earned more than two pounds a week , but we always had good vegetables . |
| 43 | We had good churns in those days , the milk in the churn , and she skim off the cream so we had raspberries and cream , and that was gorgeous . |
| 44 | Therefore since all the requirements in section 2 of the Factors Act were fulfilled , the innocent purchaser had good title to the tapestry . |
| 45 | BELVILLE : [ aside ] The girl had good sense and I thought it would be some pleasure to watch by what gradation she might be made to rise into love . |
| 46 | We had good times when he was here before . |
| 47 | They were the Bay City Rollers meets The Hammer Of The Gods — except they did n't dress crap and they had good hair . |
| 48 | Stevenson sounded startled and McLeish said , wearily , that Francesca had good contacts . |
| 49 | Like Valter Roman , he fought in the Spanish Civil War , and had good contacts with the Soviet advisers from Stalin 's secret police , the NKVD . |
| 50 | Thornton had good contacts as well , and proved very useful in arranging meetings . |
| 51 | A coupla years ago , it meant you had good contacts and you used them well . |
| 52 | With his lay people he had good fortune . |
| 53 | It would be fair to say that our impression so far is that the previous Soviet systems were , in many ways , impressive and that the Soviet Union had good controls over its nuclear weapons . |
| 54 | Peter Pike and Davern Lambert had good efforts before Musgrove completed his hat-trick with a good shot on the turn . |
| 55 | They had a lot of food , they had good equipment , and they were warm . |
| 56 | The site was about three hours ' drive away from London and also had good communications with the north of the country . |
| 57 | Brian had been handsome before alcohol had thickened his face , and she herself had good features , high cheekbones and deep-set eyes . |
| 58 | The College had good features but there was a ‘ lack of central planning and a lack of collaboration . |
| 59 | In 1962 AI 's first ever journal had good news on its front page . |
| 60 | The Elsworth stable had good news regarding Barnbrook Again , who worked with all his old zest yesterday and will run in the North Street Chase at Newbury on Saturday . |