Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For added security , you should consider fitting a good quality deadlock and an alarm . |
| 2 | I should like to have a good bath — I have n't had one for weeks — and something to eat , before you begin to cut me up as though I were one of your business opponents laid out for you to hand them the coup de grâce . ’ |
| 3 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 4 | They must have done a good job and not over ‘ humanised ’ her because her introduction to the chimp group was problem-free . |
| 5 | Minutes later , when Grant estimated he must have covered a good quarter of a mile , he again saw a grey wall barring his passage in the torch beam up ahead . |
| 6 | Mr Cubbage must have seemed a good catch with his fine house , handsome looks and with his obvious wealth . |
| 7 | Hector McLean the eminent scholar in Anthropology and Celtic Literature who gave so much help to J , F. Campbell in the preparation of " Popular Tales of the West Highlands " must have had a good library and another schoolmaster at Ballygrant , Neil MacAlpine , can not have compiled his Gaelic Dictionary without one . |
| 8 | It may not be a good reason to us , but they must have had a good reason to do it , either family-wise or tension-wise , or because of life in general . |
| 9 | Hey they must have had a good meal other night . |
| 10 | The other thing they say , if they 're Terrans , or actually , especially if they 're not , is , Well , you must have spent a good deal of time on Good Old Mother Earth . |
| 11 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 12 | The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts . |
| 13 | You 'll have to take a good swim to find him the night , over to Holland , I 'd say . |
| 14 | I 'll have had a good life , and I 'll have tried , and I 'll have made something of myself . |
| 15 | But Jan Peerce makes a very coarse and unromantic Alfredo , and Licia Albanese , who might have made a good shot at the role of Violetta under more sympathetic direction , sounds particularly nervous and unsettled . |
| 16 | ‘ They might have had a good sleep — but we certainly have n't ! ’ |
| 17 | In time he might have proved a good replacement for Chapman , but it would have needed a refinement in tactics . |
| 18 | I 'd vote for anyone who 'd promise to provide a good road link between Hereford and the motorway . |
| 19 | I 'd like to have a good head on me . |
| 20 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked . |
| 22 | Had you said this first instead of producing emotional gush about the hospital 's welfare , we could have saved a good deal of time . |
| 23 | And it could have blown a good distance in last night 's gale . |
| 24 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 25 | Sometimes they 'd , they 'd try taking a good dose of Epsom Salts to see if that would start things you know but er there was very little , very little they could do . |
| 26 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
| 27 | She may have cried a good deal without understanding why . |
| 28 | ‘ Rather than seeing total disagreement , I would prefer to have a good compromise , ’ he said . |
| 29 | If the duty is unexcludable Elvis would appear to have a good chance of success . |
| 30 | Therefore XY Ltd would appear to have a good title to the goods one way or another . |