Example sentences of "had good [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had good friends at school : Brenda , Belinda and Liese . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Moreover , France had good ships in quantity and merchandise in plenty with which to trade . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But he had good reasons . |
| 7 | Only Lieutenant Cherry , my husband , and Leading Seaman Webster were left of that crew , as they had good reasons for leaving her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Deng now had good reasons for losing his former close colleague and fellow reformer . |
| 10 | Catholic biblical scholars , theologians and many active lay groups had good reasons to be grateful . |
| 11 | And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’ |
| 12 | We had good education and we had good teachers , |
| 13 | The other companies had good theatres and some good actors , but we had the famous Richard Burbage — and the best plays . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had good teeth too , I noticed . |
| 16 | Even the teenage mothers ' infants had good chances of surviving the first year of life , if their fathers were 25–29 years old . |
| 17 | Both West Ham and Leeds had good chances to score with Pemberton hitting the post during the second half . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | My father was a gardener who never earned more than two pounds a week , but we always had good vegetables . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We had good times when he was here before . |
| 26 | Stevenson sounded startled and McLeish said , wearily , that Francesca had good contacts . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Thornton had good contacts as well , and proved very useful in arranging meetings . |
| 29 | A coupla years ago , it meant you had good contacts and you used them well . |
| 30 | 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 . |