Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALSO , Liverpool wo n't want to write off the best part of £1 million spent on recruiting Souness : £500,000 a year salary and £400,000 compensation to Rangers . |
| 2 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 3 | There 's been a lot of hot air generated over many years about grass cutting standards but it 's not an idle thought when I say if anybody wants to see where the best grass cutting takes place then they should visit . |
| 4 | Second , identifying other people 's best practices gives you the benefit of their knowledge and experience ; you do n't have to try to work out the best way of performing a particular task — you just learn from whoever is already doing it that way . |
| 5 | The Overseas Development Minister , Lynda Chalker , is to visit Russia to try to work out the best way to distribute British emergency food supplies . |
| 6 | ‘ We want to put on a good performance , and I believe we can win this one if we adopt a positive attitude . ’ |
| 7 | The prosecution need only prove that the physical action took place , and after that the defendant is expected to put forward a good reason or excuse for his action to escape conviction . |
| 8 | She longed to say it to his face , but somehow she could n't quite bring herself to do so , especially as they had just agreed to try to bring about a better working relationship . |
| 9 | Applicants should possess or expect to obtain shortly a good Honours Degree in Mathematics . |
| 10 | In this final stage of the diet we are looking to put together the best diet for your own metabolism and make-up , based on your findings . |
| 11 | What a lack of self-confidence this implies : the present wants both to patronise the past by adjudicating on its political acceptability , and also to be flattered by it , to be patted on the back and told to keep up the good work . |
| 12 | I have since asked my constituent for an update of the position and she has confirmed that the family has had to put in a good deal more extra money to finance both daughters than it had previously expected . |
| 13 | I 'm going to put up a good fight . |
| 14 | And until we 've looked honestly at the mess you 've landed in , we ca n't hope to work out the best way out of it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I like to build up a good bed of hops . |
| 16 | I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought . |
| 17 | Like I like to bring on a good horse properly . |
| 18 | She figures they 're having a hard time positioning the thing and do n't want to mess up the good thing they have going with Windows . |
| 19 | ‘ Senility is known to set in a good deal earlier in many cases . ’ |
| 20 | Truthfully , of course ; I 'd see how it sounded , and if it were too reprehensible , well , I 'd just have to think up a good lie , that was all , right now at the outset , and stick to it until perhaps I 'd begin to believe it myself . |
| 21 | Try to work out the best solution to your background problem , then forget altogether about conventional seating ( one or two sofas , armchairs , occasional chairs ) . |
| 22 | While the tannery try to sort out the best hides before they 're sent , these flaws can not be helped , so Klondyke cut round them , since otherwise the scar might eventually open up and spoil or even split the strap . |
| 23 | Phillips says that ‘ at first we try to set up a good rapport and explore the range of powers claimed . |
| 24 | That is to say , they attempt to follow up the best scoring hypothesis depth-first and back-track to earlier interpretations only if the current interpretation appears to be failing . |
| 25 | Once the decision has been taken to go ahead a good mailing should be planned under the following headings . |
| 26 | It revs to the 7400rpm red line , but the driver is usually forced to change up a good 2500rpm before then because it 's all starting to get noisy . |
| 27 | They aim to collect together the best practices from within the group . |
| 28 | Well aware that she was in a public place , she tried to modify her voice ; only then Willis did n't always hear , and she had to try again a good deal louder . |
| 29 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 30 | We tend to think that it is a modern problem , trying to set up the best lifestyle so that the need for personal commitment to the home is balanced with other social and career activities . |