Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] made a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've lost count of the times I 've made a good catch and returned the next night ( or day as the case may be ) only to blank or , at best , catch a fraction of the previous night 's catch . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I imagine she leaned eagerly over the desk towards me , as towards a pupil who has made a good point in his essay , smiling and nodding encouragingly . |
| 4 | His eyes were those of a chess-player who has made a good move . |
| 5 | At the present time the English tend to play down the significance of affinal relationships but , even so , the statement " she has made a good marriage " is more likely to refer to the social and financial standing of the husband 's immediate kin than to the personal qualities of the husband himself . |
| 6 | Yes , you 've made a good job of it . |
| 7 | Begin keeping a record of all events at this point ; hopefully it wo n't be needed , but if it is you 've made a good start . |
| 8 | The elderly lay proprietor , Miss Cordelia Claybury , had inherited the madhouse from her father who had made a good living out of the rich and insane . |
| 9 | It makes demands of your skills , it will get plenty of use , it can make a handsome addition to any room and as soon as you sit down you will know whether you have made a good job . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've made a good beginning , ’ he said , interrupting Kate 's account of how Ginny Salperton had met David Quest . |
| 11 | We have made a good start . |
| 12 | Group managing director said that the overall Divisional result was good taking into account the difficult market conditions and added , ‘ We have made a good start to 1993 , although margins were under pressure in the animal feed business due to higher raw material prices ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And they 've made a good job of tiling have n't they ? |
| 15 | Robson , who watched Rocastle last Saturday , said : ‘ He has made a good start to the season . |
| 16 | The courts are generally concerned only with the question whether the promisor has made a bargain , not with whether he has made a good bargain . |
| 17 | More can be done and more is being done and we shall encourage the industry to go out and get more business wherever it is ; but it has made a good start . |
| 18 | He 'd made a good start but now he was faltering , and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him . |
| 19 | Rogers was thinking about a cricket match in which he had made a good score , reliving the running between the wickets as he bucketed about between the shell-bursts . |
| 20 | He 's made a good job of it though . |