Example sentences of "always good to " in BNC.

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1 Do n't worry if it turns out to be a false alarm — it 's always better to be safe than sorry .
2 Well it 's always better to reef ashore if you can but if you do get caught out you can reef afloat just the same .
3 Your father was always good to me , and his uncle .
4 ‘ A very kind man and always good to me , ’ she said with more emphasis .
5 Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter .
6 Oh , Shelley , Clive was a nice enough person and he was always good to me , but he was n't right for me , and although I appeared to live happily I used to long for things to be as they were between Felipe and me .
7 Oh well he 's always good to us .
8 It is always best to be over generous with foundations since any cracking which occurs here will immediately cause cracking in the wall itself .
9 For safety 's sake it is always best to also enclose the fields in quotation marks as this gets round the problem of commas both in text fields and as thousands separators in numbers .
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