Example sentences of "have had good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lemar says Liverpool has had good play ? |
| 2 | P&O European Ferries has operated record-breaking runs on its Dover-Calais service , Sealink has had good increases on all its UK routes and Sally Line passenger numbers from Ramsgate to Dunkirk in the first six months of the year are well up . |
| 3 | I believe that he has just returned from his second visit to Nepal — a country with which this country has had good relations for about 175 years . |
| 4 | Singapore has had better luck than Hong Kong at diversifying its export markets ; but America is still a big one , and America is in recession . |
| 5 | But they will take a lot of convincing that any county has had better value from their ‘ foreign ’ recruit this season than they had out of Dean Jones before his early departure to join the Australian party to tour Sri Lanka . |
| 6 | So when my cousin rang to ask ‘ which machine ’ , I said I 'd had good results and so on . |
| 7 | She must also have had good sources of information , as she was said to know all the gossip of the village . |
| 8 | Anne would have had good use for a machete . |
| 9 | Given the complexities of Merovingian family politics , Chlothar 's denial of paternity is not conclusive : he may have had good reason to disassociate himself from Gundovald 's mother . |
| 10 | They were desert-dwellers , so Moses could scarcely have had better preparation for the wilderness journeys with Israel than these years of nomadic life . |
| 11 | As a faithful NME reader I thought you would have had better things to do than badmouth good groups , such as improve on your public relations , meaning , I wrote to you about three months ago regarding Pink Floyd to find out if they would be doing any concerts . |
| 12 | Even though Christmas in hospital was a fun-filled day , no one could have had better news than Sarah Collyer . |
| 13 | But here too there is a danger of distortion : occupants who were very poor but lived in a house with masonry foundations , surrounded by heaps of discarded food debris , and who used poor quality pottery ( fragments of which would survive ) might well appear to have had better living conditions than the richer occupants of a site who lived in a large timber-built house , using high-quality wooden and leather vessels ( which would not usually survive ) , and were able to employ servants to remove debris from the immediate vicinity of the house . |
| 14 | ‘ He ought to have had good teeth . ’ |
| 15 | If you prefer an alternative approach , some aromatherapists and reflexologists claim to have had good results . |
| 16 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 17 | Many locals had had good reason to be grateful to him when times had been hard . |
| 18 | The government , which had had good relations with Iraq , stressed its desire for a peaceful Arab solution to the conflict . |
| 19 | ‘ So far they 've had good bushel weights . ’ |
| 20 | I 've had good Christmases since but it 's a feeling I can not shed . |
| 21 | we 've had good dentists , good doctors . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've had good weather for weeks now . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've had better days ! ’ he drawled . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've had better tarts , ’ he said , and , walking to the door as she struggled into a sitting position , trying to restore her ruined self , for at some time she must leave the room and face her shattered world , he flung her his final insult . |
| 25 | We 've had better nights down the Rock Garden . |
| 26 | Ordinary PVA will work , but I have had best success with the water resistant . |
| 27 | Have had better atmosphere 's at funerals — i was in the kop just to the right of the goal and other than the odd comment from fellow fans around me it 's the quitest it 's ever been when I 've gone . |
| 28 | Staunch Friend is unchanged at 16–1 for the Champion Hurdle with Hills after a fairly bloodless win in the ASW Hurdle , but the same firm have had good money for Irish raider Destriero , who is now 12–1 from 20–1 . |
| 29 | I have had good catches before the moon rises and have also done well after it has set , but periods when the moon is bright at night are best ignored . |
| 30 | Newton Aycliffe police investigating an incident when a stolen car was smashed into a policeman 's house last week say they have had good response from their appeal for witnesses and are waiting for forensic test results . |