Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the Independent very badly needs is very solid professional newspaper management er to go along with the good franchise which it has created erm and a proper owner who can actually er do what all of us in newspapers have to do from times to times which is back a promising newspaper . |
| 2 | Checks for the above publications should be made out to the Good Housekeeping Institute . |
| 3 | I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ . |
| 4 | In this situation , it is often useful to look back at the good things you have achieved and the good times you 've enjoyed in the past . |
| 5 | We had barely finished congratulating ourselves and going round with the good news when Mrs Maddock 's little boy from the post office ran to tell us it had been torn down . |
| 6 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 7 | GHI Advice : If you 'd like a copy of Practical Guide for Asthmatics , send a cheque for £1.75 made out to the Good Housekeeping Institute ( Asthma ) , 72 Broadwick St , London W1V 2BP . |
| 8 | the degree can vary from the rider feeling that he is having his arms pulled out to the good feeling when the horse is keen to get on with his business — this is described as being well up to the rider 's hand . |
| 9 | ‘ Not bad , ’ Gay conceded , and went on with the good work . |
| 10 | Expatriates may feel that Britain has gone ‘ downhill ’ while they have been away and homecoming does not match up to the good life abroad . |
| 11 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |