Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this instance I have a better chance of getting the ball close by using the slope to let the ball run down to the flag . |
| 2 | We were sat in the North Bank ( could n't get tickets for the Leeds end ) , and in the second half we had a good view of the amount of space that the Arsenal forwards were getting , it was unbelievable . |
| 3 | Alison says parties and dinner parties can be the last places she has a good time . |
| 4 | At two other establishments I had no better luck . |
| 5 | Miss but by god she had a good aim , she might have been bloody dotty |
| 6 | I was panicking a bit about a week before the sale as stuff was not coming in very quickly but thanks to Nursery Needs and all those who did last minute searches we had a good amount of stuff to sell in the end . |
| 7 | ‘ Invitations went out on a geographical basis so each night we had a good cross section of staff like roadworkers , clerical assistants or estimators . |
| 8 | Next day he had a better idea , and sent word to Mr Shankar that he would have to go instead . |
| 9 | From the open door of the shed he had a good view of Firelight grazing and she got to know where he was and would come up to the hedge close by and wait for titbits . |
| 10 | Oh there had , had er it h erm had a marvellous water supply and it had a good sewage it had a good sewage disposal system . |
| 11 | Last week she had the good fortune to have as guest the great art historian Sir Ernst Gombrich . |
| 12 | A committee may be pardoned for insisting on hearing candidates they had never heard , but it is scarcely pardonable that they should expect one who is not a candidate , and whose qualifications they had the best opportunity of knowing , to stake his reputation in any such way . |
| 13 | For example it has a good story , exciting in parts , amusing in parts and with some memorably drawn characters . |
| 14 | Eventually , as the winter darkness descended , the fighting ceased , both sides boasting of a victory , though as Argyll re-occupied Sheriffmuir the following morning he had the better claim to have won . |
| 15 | As I stood on the footbridge I had a good view of the station . |
| 16 | He felt that , with a wife and child to support , he should be paid what he was worth , and he made it clear that he was not prepared to give in when he thought he had a good case . |
| 17 | Before he lost his money he had the good sense to commission John Soane to design the Campden Hill Square house . |
| 18 | Rocastle will probably start tonight … lets hope he has a good run . |
| 19 | Then that was one thing we had a good laugh at . |
| 20 | The next dawn we had a better look . |
| 21 | ‘ When I talk to people about how best to protect themselves from attack I always tell them that if they can turn that surprise back on to the attacker they have a better chance of making an escape . |
| 22 | My subject was French history , and although my focus was on a relatively obscure piece of ecclesiastical history I had the good fortune to work with the most genial and scholarly of humanists , Professor Alfred Cobban of the University of London . |
| 23 | Before sunrise I had the good fortune to discover that it was no longer necessary to maintain the horizontal posture , and came out on deck at two o'clock in the morning to see a noble full moon sinking westward and millions of the most brilliant stars shining overhead . |
| 24 | If people want to escape urban gloom I have a good suggestion : throw your TV , video and stereo through the window , lock your car in the garage and buy a bicycle . |
| 25 | As adults we had a good relationship , sadly ended by his death in a motorbike accident in 1979 . |
| 26 | In the country we have a better chance . ’ |
| 27 | It is impossible to watch the towplane and the ground ahead during the climb out so that in the event of a launch failure the glider pilot has to look for a field , whereas in the normal tow position he has a good view of the fields ahead all the time . |
| 28 | In the evening we all got dressed up to go to a ball nearby , and over dinner I had a good chance to catch up with some friends I had n't seen for years , and meet various husbands too ! |
| 29 | He took stick from everyone his mates said it was about time they had a good laugh . |
| 30 | Whilst in Vienna he had the good fortune to meet Petar II Petrović-Njegoš , the Vladika of Montenegro , who was passing through on his way to St Petersburg for his consecration as bishop . |