Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says : ‘ I tried to have a good marriage , be a good mother and have a career . |
| 2 | I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’ |
| 3 | Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over . |
| 4 | I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path . |
| 5 | I 'd had a good week . |
| 6 | And I 'd have shot myself if we lost because I 'd wasted a good chance just before the goal . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm a photographer , not a billionaire , so I needed to get a good idea going to pay for it all . |
| 8 | Actually I did have a good party once . |
| 9 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
| 10 | The ‘ ghost ’ was now exorcised , without fuss or argument , and I had lost a good source of revenue . |
| 11 | I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye . |
| 12 | My letter was published in full , and I was pleased with myself , for two good reasons : my first literary effort had been accepted ; and I had had a good swipe at the evils of fascism , judging by the stream of supporting letters which followed . |
| 13 | But he countered : ‘ The supporter was saying terrible things to me and I went back up the tunnel because I wanted to have a good look at the face of the person who was abusing me . |
| 14 | ‘ You got to have a good pair of legs and a good pair of lungs to go up there . |
| 15 | I was very pleased that you 'd had a good go at that |
| 16 | If you 'd had a good horse , you asked for hol holiday with er , alright you 'd get it , you would n't do your horse , you know , they 'd take your horse off you . |
| 17 | And if you 'd got a good suit , you 'd take that , then fetch it out for the weekend , so they 'd looked decent , and when you took it back on Monday and he said I 'll have to drop you on that , Ah , so you wo n't this week . |
| 18 | Tomorrow , when she 'd had a good night 's sleep , she 'd be much better capable of dealing with him . |
| 19 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
| 20 | By now she 'd had a good look at him . |
| 21 | she 'd left a good gold star by your name . |
| 22 | But as a dutiful wife , she managed to put a good face on it , particularly after her husband promised they would return again in the spring . |
| 23 | One compositor , Jean Henderson whose daughter kindly provided me with information , went into the trade ( in the 1890s , that is some time after the earliest entrants ) straight from the Dean Orphanage , where she had received a good education ( see Plate 1 ) . |
| 24 | She had lost a good deal of her bloom and bounce , and looked as if the sentiments of the burial service kept stabbing her to the heart . |
| 25 | She had done a good deal more than that . |
| 26 | A midwife with 25 years experience , she thought she had done a good job — then she discovered the truth . |
| 27 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 28 | Dr Jonathan Karn , of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge , said she had shown a good grasp of the issues and he praised her role in changing public attitudes to the disease . |
| 29 | Erm just the same as if you had had a good nights sleep . |
| 30 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |