Example sentences of "he [verb] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made good use of every piece of newspaper that he could pick up and every convenient hedgerow ! |
| 2 | He made good use of the opportunity , bringing his horse round the outside of two leaders on the final bends to hit the front before the last . |
| 3 | In America he made good . |
| 4 | He had his little peccadilloes , the quaint and rather Machiavellian ways to gain his little ends , but he knew me and I knew him , and in essentials he made good . ’ |
| 5 | He appealed to most New Zealand judges simply because he made good use of the blindside , mixed up his passes and kicks and generally gave the impression that he could play the percentages very much in the New Zealand fashion . |
| 6 | They allowed him through the security system first , leaving them trapped behind the time-lock doors as he made good his escape . |
| 7 | Had he been more self-assertive he might have risen higher in politics , but in his chosen field he made good use of his wealth and talents . |
| 8 | It is generally accepted , for example , that the Duzme Mustafa who opposed both Mehmed I and Murad II was executed in 825/1422 , though there is , admittedly , a story that he made good his escape to Kefe ; and it is likewise generally held that Ibrahim Pasa held the office of Grand Vezir uninterruptedly from his appointment in 824/1421 ( ? ) until his death in 832/1429 . |
| 9 | Miller won 41 per cent of the total vote , a proportion which reflected the skill with which he conducted a campaign in which he made good use of the experience gained during his 16 years as lieutenant-governor . |
| 10 | He made good progress until February 1992 when he was readmitted with a febrile illness and a tender mass in the right side of his neck , which was thought to be infective , but had not resolved despite treatment with flucloxacillin . |
| 11 | Theudebert I was already an active figure in the last years of his father 's reign , and he had the support of a military following , his leudes , with whose help he made good his claim to the throne . |
| 12 | He made good speed down to the river , and then there was a path to aid him as far as the mill . |
| 13 | He expected good behaviour and his rather grim glance in her direction did more to motivate her into action than any coaxing . |
| 14 | He became good friends with the theatre designer Jocelyn Herbert and her husband , the lawyer and friend of Robin Darwin , Sir Anthony Lousada , who became a member of the Royal College of Art Council in 1952 . |
| 15 | I think that he got better as he got older . |
| 16 | He got better Girls from there , not boasting . |
| 17 | However , he got better results in his own TV film , The Ewok Adventure ( aka Caravan of Courage , 1984 ) , which he produced for Lucas , by shooting some action sequences with most of the picture area on the negative blocked off , then — working from a test strip just before the main action — matching the matte painting to the unexposed area and finally compositing action and painting together . |
| 18 | Slowly , he got better . |
| 19 | ‘ He got better — went back to the Fire Service , ’ she said , but Eileen 's innocent remark seemed to have touched some nerve which made her say bitterly , ‘ He went back to scrimping and saving to keep his horrible wife in comfort in a nursing home . |
| 20 | Stay with him until he got better . |
| 21 | I think he got good medical care and was kept comfortable , and God decided he should die , and I could n't prevent it . |
| 22 | ‘ After the game he got good critics by senior-manager Drillo himself : Frank was very good . |
| 23 | He wants to defy me , but he thinks better of it . |
| 24 | He looks good in the mirror . |
| 25 | ‘ He looks better , it 's true , but some days he eats nothing at all , and other days he eats just like a healthy boy . |
| 26 | ‘ He looks better than we expected — Frank says that 's all due to him — and he 's quite tanned . |
| 27 | But he 's shaved his hair off so he looks better , he thinks he looks like Yul Brynner . |
| 28 | Do n't you think he looks better after being o on that food now ? |
| 29 | What do you mean he looks better as a woman ? |
| 30 | But he found good and gracious words to say , and the Northumbrian squire in his simplicity was well satisfied , and did the rest of his office joyously . |