Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I mean get a good deal |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got a visitor coming at six o'clock and I want to make a good impression on him — it 's twenty to four already . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I want to have a good look round Mr Livesey 's rooms . |
| 4 | I want to have a good talk with Mr Makepeace and Mr Farraday … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Shut up , Ed , ’ said Joey dispassionately , ‘ I like to hear a good story . |
| 6 | ‘ I like to have a good conversation with a boy . ’ |
| 7 | I walk a lot — I like to have a good hour 's walk each day if I can . |
| 8 | ‘ I like a drink and I like to have a good time ! |
| 9 | I remember feeling a good deal embarrassed , which he imperturbably pretended not to notice , thereby perhaps further teaching me a lesson in Eliot-etiquette , though he was the last person deliberately to make anyone feel uneasy . |
| 10 | Christians in particular have trouble with this part of the grief response because so often it seems that Christians are not meant to be angry — especially when the feeling is commonly directed towards God personally , as it were : ‘ I try to live a good life and see what He has let happen … |
| 11 | ‘ I do like a good Jeffrey Archer , ’ said Hyacinth . |
| 12 | I do like a good organist , particularly when a traditional organ is used . |
| 13 | Whilst I admit that not everyone of my class members have joined I do have a good percentage mostly I feel sure through loyalty to me as their teacher . |
| 14 | Steve Mclaren came back in , back back in I think did a good job , Mickey Lewis tackles and , and everything there , Les is a good pass the ball so , the three of them in there , er tomorrow night , should be able to pass the ball around . |
| 15 | ‘ I think having a good relationship is the most important thing in the whole world . ’ |
| 16 | I 've written a good deal about traps . |
| 17 | I 'll feel that I 've lost a good friend . |
| 18 | I 've lived a good life . |
| 19 | It was very hard work but you felt , well I 've done a good day 's work when you 'd finished . |
| 20 | And when I 've done a good lesson — whatever that means — when it 's gone down well . |
| 21 | I 've lost count of the times I 've made a good catch and returned the next night ( or day as the case may be ) only to blank or , at best , catch a fraction of the previous night 's catch . |
| 22 | I 've had a good run all week , I 've er |
| 23 | And he said : ‘ I 've had a good rest now and it remains to be seen whether I have still got it . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've had a good crack , ’ he says with unconscious irony . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've had a good look round , June , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ Now , I 've had a good look around it and , you know , there 's nothing really wrong with it , it 's just very old — ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I would say that after a rotten beginning I 've had a good life — That 's not very helpful , is it ? ’ |
| 28 | I 've had a good life , on the whole . ’ |
| 29 | I just move some of this stuff out the way , I know , I 've had a good idea , a smart idea |
| 30 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |