Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] a good [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He threw the hoe to the ground , hoped that at least the pig had had a good meal , and want back inside his church . |
| 4 | Coun Jones said the team had done a good job for the whole community . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Civil Affairs Service had done a good job in my estimation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Simon the tiler had done a good job . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Like the generals , the Colonial Office had had a good war . |