Example sentences of "[verb] make a good [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plays throughout Europe and North America and has made a good number of recordings . |
| 2 | On a good pitch and with a fast outfield , Indian should have made a better fist of their innings , but only Srikkanth ( who fell to an outstanding catch by Peter Taylor at mid-off ) passed 20 as Australia 's allrounders ran through the order . |
| 3 | Villa boss Ron Atkinson said : ‘ In the first half , we might have made a better game of it if we had turned up . |
| 4 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 5 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 6 | Sometimes , it wondered whether dinosaurs would n't have made a better job of civilisation . |
| 7 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 8 | Even those students intending to make a good copy of their rough essay may plan their writing . |
| 9 | I mean , it 's a , it 's a wooden prefab type hut , it 's very hardy done , concrete floors , they 've made a good job of it . |
| 10 | Yes , you 've made a good job of it . |
| 11 | And they 've made a good job of tiling have n't they ? |
| 12 | He must have been sixty or so , but you had to get close to see it and if his hair was grey , someone had made a good job of disguising the fact . |
| 13 | The malai photographers had made a good job of it , this genuine FAKINTIL atrocity . |
| 14 | Incidentally , I was interested to read in the Financial Times and other newspapers today that the foreman in the Guinness 2 trial of Mr. Seelig and Lord Spens said that the prosecution had made a good job of identifying the structure of that case . |
| 15 | If Austin Rover 's Leyland forebears had made a better job of the Stag in the first place , values would probably have risen before . |
| 16 | Margaret Cullinane will be team chasing for the UK ( page 21 ) and the Wimpey cricket team ( same page ) will be hoping to make a better fist of it than the British squad . |
| 17 | He 's made a good job of it though . |