Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You two appear to have had a good time , ’ Maggie said with a smile .
2 Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance .
3 In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more .
4 Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter .
5 In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it .
6 Two of them — Iris Murdoch and William Golding — are said to have composed a good deal of fiction before succeeding at last with a publisher ; succeeding , as Golding once remarked , not because he had tried to please but because for once he stopped trying and wrote the book he had always wanted to write .
7 Newspapers in North America suffered in the recession , but paid-for regional papers in the UK are said to have had a good year .
8 Magnus is said to have led a blameless childhood and in the Longer Magnúss Saga he is said to have had a good schooling which enabled him to learn ‘ holy writings ’ .
9 It 's an unusual day cos he 's got to have create a good impression with the boss you see , the area manager , there might be something in it for him .
10 Somehow , the party is going to have to find a better way of operating this time round .
11 ‘ You seem to have had a good view , ’ commented Dexter .
12 Yes , I think we 'll have to have have a good look , yes it 's alright when you 've got a few things to get , but when when you 've got the whole list .
13 Since I find novelists tend to say it better than sociologists , let me quote from one who seems to have anticipated a good deal of what was to come after the period when we had never had it so good :
14 He seems to have had a good acquaintance with the theory and practice of shoeing , though we can not admit his claim to originality .
15 Christie 's had secured a good selection of attractive conversation pieces and landscape paintings calculated to appeal to private collectors on a budget , as well as the more interesting portraits and equestrian compositions , while the quality of the works at Sotheby 's was particularly thin .
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