Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian has made a better recovery than we dared hope , but it is still important that we do not take his fitness for granted . |
| 2 | ‘ Ken 's got a good sense of humour . |
| 3 | So everyone working on the door at Ronnie 's had a good laugh at us while Strummer was hustling to get us in . |
| 4 | Fashanu , ignored since being capped twice by Bobby Robson three years ago , said : ‘ Alan has had a good start but that does n't put him in the class of Ian . |
| 5 | St Aubyn 's had a good reputation when my father decided to send us there . |
| 6 | Liberal Democrat Candidate Suzanne Fletcher has received a good luck card from Essex , from a direct descendant of the area 's Liberal MP between 1918 and 1920 . |
| 7 | Willi has done a better job with Georg than I ever did with Peter . |
| 8 | I visited the local Oxfordshire set ups , that 's Williams , Benneton and Leyton House in the last couple of weeks , and all of them say ‘ Eddy 's got a good car , a good chassis , a good engine and he 's got good finance ’ , and they expect him to be right up there with the big names from the start . |
| 9 | Julian has lost a good deal of weight . |
| 10 | Irrespective of the final battle , Mr Ashdown has had a good war . |
| 11 | The ES has earned a good reputation in responding to new opportunities . |
| 12 | The ES has earned a good reputation in responding to new opportunities . |
| 13 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 14 | Suzanne 's got a good sense of balance which is always useful when you 're sailing Now let's look at this gybe to see if it 's any smoother . |
| 15 | But he has little hesitation in declaring that his successor as chairman of Esso has done a better job than he was able to achieve . |
| 16 | ‘ I am delighted that Jarvis 's Frayn has had a good reaction , as I think it is some of my best work . ’ |
| 17 | Oxford 's had a good reputation for relationships between staff and prisoners . |
| 18 | As my comrade from Scotland says John Prescott has done a good job here , but I have to say it 's not up against very much . |
| 19 | The case of Nigeria has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in this respect and is worth looking at more closely . |
| 20 | Someone who says he 's ‘ held one in his hand ’ , thinks that Intel has done a good job hyping up the industry over the P5 without having much chance of delivering its promises for some time to come . |
| 21 | Geoff has done a good job on it . |
| 22 | Wise Speke is quietly confident that Whessoe has made a good deal for its longer term development . |
| 23 | When Pitt wants to have a good time he invites his ‘ little group of buddies ’ , including actor Dermot Mulroney — a whiz on the cello — over for an old-fashioned ‘ hootinanny ’ jam session . |
| 24 | To its credit , Fimbra has done a good job weeding out some of the black sheep . |
| 25 | A story is when McTavish wants to build a better world for everyone — just like you have it in the book , I do n't want to change anything — and the local hoods jump on him . |
| 26 | But political pundits agree Michael Fallon has done a good job as a constituency MP . |
| 27 | For instance a large chunk of those voters who did declare firmly their intention to vote Labour were still prepared to recognise that Michael Fallon has done a good job as a constituency MP for the town since his election victory in 1983 . |
| 28 | It seemed that Smith has got a better image than the present chancellor has n't he ? |
| 29 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |
| 30 | Soon he was being coached by former long-distance runner Gordon Pirie , the film 's technical adviser , who said , ‘ Michael 's got a good physique , his co-ordination 's brilliant and he has a sparkling character . |