Example sentences of "had good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All except one had good mobility ; none was incontinent ; none wandered from home .
2 The people of Tiree were very kind , and I had to take tea with a family who had good English , and invited me to come right away and remain their guest while I stayed on the island .
3 ( I have just given my chaplain a good rap across the knuckles ; that will teach him to make remarks like , ‘ And Master Daunbey had good knowledge of fools , having you as a servant . ’ )
4 She had good friends at school : Brenda , Belinda and Liese .
5 Otherwise , Sainsbury 's considered that they had good connections in the retail trade — especially through their joint-venture with British Home Stores — and thus their own recruiting facilities were usually adequate .
6 Piggy felt that he had good leadership qualities , and during the voting , he held back to see if anybody was left to vote for him .
7 Piggy felt that he had good leadership qualities and during the voting he held back to see if anyone would vote for him .
8 Moreover , France had good ships in quantity and merchandise in plenty with which to trade .
9 NORTH-EAST haulage contractor Nigel Shield had good excuse to celebrate recently when he notched up his first victory on an international rally .
10 In each round I had good lane draws and ran comfortably .
11 B : Nicest — I had good fun
12 Yeah , that 's what I said to him , I bet you had good fun .
13 The development officer had good working relationships with the key workers , and discussed cases regularly with them both within and outside psychogeriatric team meetings .
14 Three schizophrenics had good remission .
15 Early on , the Quakers were the better side and had good scoring chances even before Nick Pickering blasted them ahead with a 25-yard volley in the 16th minute .
16 It is , moreover , debatable whether the dynamic , competitive stimulus of the rivalry between the two industries also had good effects in sharpening the commercial edge of both of them .
17 Moreover , the Germans had no desire to be saddled with more of BAOR 's sector of the front : they had enough on their hands under-pinning the Dutch and Belgian corps , whose military worth they had good reasons to doubt in the late 1950s .
18 But he had good reasons .
19 Only Lieutenant Cherry , my husband , and Leading Seaman Webster were left of that crew , as they had good reasons for leaving her .
20 The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so .
21 Deng now had good reasons for losing his former close colleague and fellow reformer .
22 Catholic biblical scholars , theologians and many active lay groups had good reasons to be grateful .
23 We had good sailing weather until we reached the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa , where we landed to get fresh water .
24 We had good footage of the capture and the scrum , but we still needed footage of the hunt itself .
25 And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’
26 We had good education and we had good teachers ,
27 The DAR had good intelligence contacts , obviously .
28 The guards were above us and we always had good warning of their approach down the little staircase to the iron door .
29 We had good education and we had good teachers ,
30 The other companies had good theatres and some good actors , but we had the famous Richard Burbage — and the best plays .
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