Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] a [adv] good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the other , if you bluff against an opponent who has a really good hand you may end up very much worse off than if you had decided to throw in your bad hand before you had raised the bet too far .
2 And it 's much more usual for that kind of thing to happen , so that you are more likely to get a , a minister who has a very good idea about how erm the civil service functions because he 's been part of it .
3 Although anti-abortionists would maintain that it is morally wrong to dispose of a child even if it will live no longer than a week at the most , many more people doubt the right of a mother to dispose of a child with Down 's Syndrome who stands a very good chance of living a lengthy life .
4 Alas John , my day was spoilt , not by two teams who provided a reasonably good game but by people who should have known better .
5 sort of track are contacting the people who done a very good job on the on the public footpath erm and that was actually going through our land , and they done some steps with erm you know erm wooden erm supports in them , er maybe in in conjunction with , was it ?
6 Moreover , a student who obtains a reasonably good degree can usually obtain financial support for a year of postgraduate study leading to an MSc in Statistics .
7 Even they could consider themselves lucky compared with the shackled Italians torpedoed on the Arandora Star on their way to Canada , or other internees beaten and robbed on their way to Australia by British officers and NCOs on the Dunera who gave a pretty good imitation of Hitler 's Stormtroopers .
8 Late entries are a Tipperary team which includes '90 Irish sprint champion Declan Byrne , Mark Kiely , who had a very good Ras and Ray Clarke .
9 Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently .
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