Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] have a good [noun sg] " 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 was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path . |
| 3 | I 'd had a good week . |
| 4 | Actually I did have a good party once . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was very pleased that you 'd had a good go at that |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Tomorrow , when she 'd had a good night 's sleep , she 'd be much better capable of dealing with him . |
| 10 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
| 11 | By now she 'd had a good look at him . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get . |
| 15 | Yeah we did have a good afternoon . |
| 16 | We had had a good dinner , and we were all in the mood for fun and games — all , that is , except Jackson . |
| 17 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 18 | They seemed to have a good relationship , agree about most things , and never , never row — at least , not in front of the children . |
| 19 | that 's what I mean if they 'd had a good whistler he kept instead of her , could n't he ? |
| 20 | They 'd had a good time . |
| 21 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 22 | Her father , Peter Few Brown said they 'd had a good visit . |
| 23 | They had had a good run for their money and there were still thousands of reels of tape to be analysed and matched against other intelligence sources . |
| 24 | The CO sat in another rain-washed tent to receive Charles 's fairly smart salute and ask him if he 'd had a good day . |
| 25 | He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ? |
| 26 | If I was a less trusting soul I 'd have said he 'd had a good lunch . |
| 27 | I just hoped he 'd had a good surveyor on the job before committing himself . |
| 28 | And he 'd tell me stories or sing to me , and sometimes , after he 'd had a good tumblerful of whisky , he 'd slide his hand up my shorts and stroke my thigh . |
| 29 | He 'd had a good line going with a number of the wives out here — what man had n't ? |
| 30 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |