Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ ghost ’ was now exorcised , without fuss or argument , and I had lost a good source of revenue . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had done a good deal more than that . |
| 7 | A midwife with 25 years experience , she thought she had done a good job — then she discovered the truth . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Erm just the same as if you had had a good nights sleep . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We had eaten a good dinner — among other things a golden bolster of an omelette bursting its seams with truffles — and drunk some excellent red wine of Cahors and afterwards a glass of that remarkable eau-de-vie of plums called Vieille Prune which is one of the great Dordogne products — another is the odd and delicious walnut oil with which , if you are lucky , you may get your salad dressed . |
| 13 | Founder and director Lesley Scott-Ordish hoped we had enjoyed a good night , and we had . |
| 14 | As before , he was concerned to hear that we had enjoyed a good flight to his native city , had found a good hotel and that we were managing to survive the bitter cold , the snow and the ice of a Canadian winter . |
| 15 | We had had a good dinner , and we were all in the mood for fun and games — all , that is , except Jackson . |
| 16 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 17 | The fact is that before the evening was over I had not only penetrated Karen sexually , but perhaps even more important we had shared a good laugh together at Dennis 's expense . |
| 18 | Since the 1950s they had lost a good deal of their influence over him to the Americans . |
| 19 | They had done a good job at that garage . |
| 20 | ‘ We recognized that they were a new club , that they had obtained a good holding in a Rugby area and that the club had bright prospects , but our case was clear — Leeds were defiant , and could be defiant through one cause — fear of the papers giving away certain secrets . ’ |
| 21 | He was slow to sign up two aged persons as being of unsound mind , and only did so after they had given a good deal of trouble at the workhouse . |
| 22 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 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 | But you think it had had a good kicking or something , would n't you ? |
| 25 | It had proved a good move as the sector had avoided the worst excesses of the building slump . |
| 26 | Lord Beddington was not appreciating the day to its fullest , despite the fact that for some unknown reason it had seemed a good idea to buy a Panama hat . |
| 27 | It had seemed a good idea at the time , a bit of expensive and unusual fun with some of her friends , and sure , she had been intrigued when she had been told that she should beware of her fiery nature 's setting alight a situation which would become frighteningly uncontrollable , but that was three days ago . |
| 28 | It had seemed a good idea , but how could she ask for Dana in a strange shop ? |
| 29 | It had seemed a good idea to set up his incident room in the local primary school . |
| 30 | As he tackled his cold meat loaf and salad , Hank thought he had better show some interest in his father , so he asked the back page of the newspaper if it had had a good trip . |