Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [art] good " in BNC.

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1 Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face .
2 Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing !
3 I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out .
4 Life in the rainforest is brutish and short , and most of the Kayan people I spoke to consider themselves a good deal better off than their forefathers — thanks to the logging .
5 I give them a , I did give them a good rinse afterwards though .
6 Time to fast from it That session with She-She had done me no good at all .
7 Then , if she 'd given him a good time and he was a collaborator , he might not report her .
8 Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had .
9 Enraged by his presumption , she longed to land him a good smack on the face , famous actor or no famous actor , but he had her arms pinned to her sides , and his strength was far greater than hers .
10 We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . "
11 They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too .
12 It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted .
13 While Sarazen felt ‘ the biggest heel in the world ’ , he also knew he had to give himself the best chance of winning the Open ; and that , regrettably , could not be achieved with his old caddie Dan .
14 When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside .
15 Which was why it was so intriguing to hear that he had told one or more of the SRU 's top brass that while Peter Wright was still scrummaging like a tight-head prop in that — one would have thought very wisely — he did not attempt any of the seasoned loose-head 's tricks of the trade , he had found him a good , strong and heavy scrummager , difficult to budge .
16 He thought I might know something and he wanted to do me a good turn . ’
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