Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also good-quality stuff , and it takes a good couple of minutes of comparing the grain on the outside and the inside of the guitar to make absolutely sure that the back and sides are n't actually solid . |
| 2 | And it gets a good audience . |
| 3 | In fact , there was no chance of losing her job , but sooner or later she would have to go and it seemed a good idea to lay down a time now . |
| 4 | With difficulty , though , she hid her ire — and it seemed a good idea then to reply to this high and mighty man with what he all too clearly wanted to hear . |
| 5 | And it seemed a good laugh . |
| 6 | You ca n't insure cash , as you know , but who cares , and it seemed a good present . |
| 7 | It 's my job to keep a check on the stock and it seemed a good chance to get something done … ’ |
| 8 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 9 | The most frightening is rainforest destruction , and being a carpenter and joiner by trade anyway I have used many threatened species in my past and it seemed a good thing to start with . |
| 10 | It was loud , aggressive and it had a good tune , ’ says Peter Thompson , head of distribution at Red Rhino . |
| 11 | Oh there had , had er it h erm had a marvellous water supply and it had a good sewage it had a good sewage disposal system . |
| 12 | However , not all teachers found curriculum-specific organization easy to implement or operate , and it provides a good example of a practice commended in the name of ‘ flexibility ’ which makes the work of some teachers less , rather than more , flexible ( a tension which emerges in research elsewhere — Alexander 1988 ) . |
| 13 | I designed the itinerary , of course , for high political resonance , but it seemed a good idea to take in beautiful towns and routes . |
| 14 | God knows why , because I was n't entertaining and I never went in pubs , but it seemed a good idea at the time . |
| 15 | How the British depended on tea — but it seemed a good idea . |
| 16 | I do n't know what animal it was , but it made a good meal . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course , he might not be geographically correct , but it makes a good story . ’ |
| 18 | I doubt that the public will think that the Bill goes far enough — but it makes a good start . |
| 19 | ‘ No , ’ he laughed , ‘ but it makes a good tale . ’ |
| 20 | But it knows a good book when it buys one . |
| 21 | British companies rarely welcomed headhunters positively ; they engaged them out of desperation , but it gave the good firms the chance to rise to the occasion . |