Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The PR Department had made a good start in the CASB period with Colonel Glass in charge . |
| 2 | For various reasons the specific item search , into which the designers had put a good deal of effort , was less successful . |
| 3 | Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen . |
| 4 | Andre Moga , the president of Beglès and one of the so-called ‘ barons ’ of French rugby , made the following comment : ‘ If Rodez had had a good president at the time this would not have reached court ’ . |
| 5 | He threw the hoe to the ground , hoped that at least the pig had had a good meal , and want back inside his church . |
| 6 | I could talk to anybody in fluent French , and Marius had managed a good grasp of the language . |
| 7 | Coun Jones said the team had done a good job for the whole community . |
| 8 | Donald had had a good innings . |
| 9 | The client concerned wanted both a finance director and a managing director ; the headhunter had found a good candidate with an accountancy background to be MD , before deciding that the same man would be better in the finance director position . |
| 10 | Tuathal had made a good job , then , of his ambush . |
| 11 | To give him his due , Sorley had picked a good place for his sneak preview of Patterson 's mail . |
| 12 | The Collector had sat a good deal in this chair over the past few days and it had come to affect his habits of thought . |
| 13 | But Cromwell had cared a good deal about religion , thought Karelius . |
| 14 | The Civil Affairs Service had done a good job in my estimation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The media had recognised a good subject in the white-haired surgeon in his plus-twos and St. Andrew 's pullover , with his characteristic swing and follow-through — his body leaning forward and the club aimed like a rifle at the flag . |
| 17 | Paisley and Craig had spent a good part of the previous year publicly disagreeing about the future of Stormont . |
| 18 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 19 | The malai photographers had made a good job of it , this genuine FAKINTIL atrocity . |
| 20 | Founded and endowed by Leo Bonn , a deaf merchant banker and financier , the bureau had made a good start , but went into decline during the war . |
| 21 | Again , they could have gone into the supermarket , but they thought the police had had a good look at them , so they sprinted through the crowds who took as little notice as they expected , and across the street just after the lights had changed 50 that the traffic beginning to move , hooted . |
| 22 | Once Barbara had had a good look at her new style in the mirror , she was very pleased with the change . |
| 23 | The growth of western power and activity in Asia had done a good deal to extend the geographical scope of European-type diplomacy . |
| 24 | The gains had been welcomed by the government as confirmation that its economic policies had received a good response from investors . |
| 25 | Simon the tiler had done a good job . |
| 26 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 27 | That publisher had done a good job , but I did n't feel that it would really be geared to the sort of mass market that I wanted to reach . |
| 28 | The objectives of Rolls Royce had been met — a group of highly intelligent , well-motivated students had had a good experience of the engineering industry , and their interest in an engineering career had , by their own account , been greatly increased as a result . |
| 29 | The whole operation had taken a few seconds only , a little huddle of activity in all of which the discreet entry of Liz Spalding to the house had had a good chance of going unnoticed by any distant , watching eyes . |
| 30 | Anne , the Pixie Second , often ran errands for her , and at one time or another most of the Brownies in the Pack had done a good turn for the little old lady . |