Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a good [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 2 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 3 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 4 | Any member of stab who went into the Biology Lab before her would have needed a good excuse to explain his presence there , unless , of course , he was a member of the Biology Department . |
| 5 | That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months . |
| 6 | It may not be a good reason to us , but they must have had a good reason to do it , either family-wise or tension-wise , or because of life in general . |
| 7 | You 'll have to take a good swim to find him the night , over to Holland , I 'd say . |
| 8 | Mr Robin Cook , shadow Health Secretary , said : ‘ We could not have chosen a better issue to put centre stage for the first televised session of Parliament . ’ |
| 9 | And the victim could have chosen a better place to voice throaty communist sentiments . |
| 10 | GRAEME HICK finally lived up to his tag as England 's saviour yesterday — and the one-time ‘ Boy Wonder ’ could not have chosen a better moment to put his wretched Test record behind him . |
| 11 | SINEAD Donaghy could n't have chosen a better time to score her first goal of the season . |
| 12 | The growth of western power and activity in Asia had done a good deal to extend the geographical scope of European-type diplomacy . |
| 13 | who the hell you think you are I 've got a good mind to put your beard right in this food |
| 14 | What made it all so difficult was that , though practically no one had had a good word to say for Hereward , no one could or would pin down that dislike into a form which could prime a hatred violent enough to kill him . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , since everyone 's giving speeches , I may as well take a turn , ’ he said , and it was at once apparent from his voice that he had had a good deal to drink . |
| 16 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |
| 17 | It had seemed a good idea to set up his incident room in the local primary school . |
| 18 | Lord Beddington was not appreciating the day to its fullest , despite the fact that for some unknown reason it had seemed a good idea to buy a Panama hat . |
| 19 | As Jamie was 10 shots behind going into the final round at Crans , his regular caddie , Mark Steers , was quite confident that he had chosen a good week to take off . |
| 20 | We must all do everything we can — at all times , to make Riverbank a better place to live . |