Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd better have a good reason for ringing me up on Christmas Day ! |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better have a good reason for all this , Lizzy , because I want to know exactly what 's going on with you . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd never had a good word to say for them before , a bunch o' thieving magpies , he always said , living off the fat of the land while he had to pay taxes to keep 'em . |
| 4 | And this is unlikely to change — after all if the sales person knew enough to do a good job of giving advice they could easily start a new career as a consultant ! |
| 5 | The proposal did however offer a good measure against which the visits could be set . |
| 6 | So anyone who wants to study competition , travel and world capitalism in the 1980s for a PhD programme in fifty years time had better take a good look now . |
| 7 | Jonadab confirmed that the shepherd was not one for strong drink and was beginning to think that George had possibly made a good choice , when the old farmer and his wife came back along the line . |
| 8 | Northern Foods had always had a good name locally , and had earned respect for its relations with its workers . |
| 9 | Mr Wilson had also said a good deal about modernizing the machinery of government . |
| 10 | ‘ Why does n't her nephew send her the money for the fare ? ’ asked Mary , one of the Sprites , who had often done a good turn for Miss Miggs . |
| 11 | Lamb had taken over the Northamptonshire leadership the previous season and had shown himself enthusiastic if inexperienced , but had then missed a good deal of the season through injury . |
| 12 | Wood had evidently benefited a good deal more from his schooling than Stephenson , and unlike Stephenson 's , his work was based more on learning than on intuition . |
| 13 | It forms a bypass around Crowmarsh Gifford and had previously had a good safety record . |
| 14 | Her son , Lord Switham , was still a boy , but the two Misses Switham were of marriageable age , and their mother had cleverly secured a good match for the elder in her very first season . |