Example sentences of "had a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now that he had had a good sleep , he could see that Strawberry was really a harmless , decent sort of fellow . |
| 2 | ‘ They might have had a good sleep — but we certainly have n't ! ’ |
| 3 | I would n't think if he 's had a good sleep today . |
| 4 | She could see that if the circumstances of their meeting had been happier they would have had a good drink of her mother 's secret stash of Bushmill 's and reminisced all night . |
| 5 | You 've had a good drink this week . |
| 6 | Once Barbara had had a good look at her new style in the mirror , she was very pleased with the change . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've had a good look round , June , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc has had a good look at Unix System Lab 's Destiny desktop — it is a beta site — but is n't worried by the competition , ‘ after looking at it closely , we 've no problem with Open Desktop , ’ it says . |
| 9 | Again , they could have gone into the supermarket , but they thought the police had had a good look at them , so they sprinted through the crowds who took as little notice as they expected , and across the street just after the lights had changed 50 that the traffic beginning to move , hooted . |
| 10 | ‘ Now , I 've had a good look around it and , you know , there 's nothing really wrong with it , it 's just very old — ’ |
| 11 | By now she 'd had a good look at him . |
| 12 | So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get . |
| 13 | Magnus is said to have led a blameless childhood and in the Longer Magnúss Saga he is said to have had a good schooling which enabled him to learn ‘ holy writings ’ . |
| 14 | Neil says he does n't like the swimming and the lakes have been cold while Derek says they 've been through the pain barrier and have had to spend up to ten hours a day in the saddle but they 've had a good back up team … he also jokes that there has n't been a day when he would n't have rather stopped in bed |
| 15 | The objectives of Rolls Royce had been met — a group of highly intelligent , well-motivated students had had a good experience of the engineering industry , and their interest in an engineering career had , by their own account , been greatly increased as a result . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never had a good experience of a boss with a short upper lip , ’ said Fred . |
| 17 | No birds about at the moment but they 've had a good feed of chicken , but |
| 18 | He seems to have had a good acquaintance with the theory and practice of shoeing , though we can not admit his claim to originality . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What made it all so difficult was that , though practically no one had had a good word to say for Hereward , no one could or would pin down that dislike into a form which could prime a hatred violent enough to kill him . |
| 21 | So everyone working on the door at Ronnie 's had a good laugh at us while Strummer was hustling to get us in . |
| 22 | He and Charlie had had a good laugh over that particular house , but there had been something serious in Charlie 's laughter and Jack had guessed he aimed high . |
| 23 | We 've all had a good laugh about it , but it does raise the question of trespass and the rights and wrongs of access to runners , ’ writes Dave . |
| 24 | If you have n't had a good laugh about work in the past two days , something 's wrong . |
| 25 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I showed it to some of my friends and they have had a good laugh about it . |
| 27 | We have had a good couple of months and we are fairly positive about the outlook for the remainder of the year . ’ |
| 28 | Although he has had a good response from his three other beers , production is still only two barrels a week . |
| 29 | We have had a good response from some areas , but would like to recruit lay members from Spennymoor , Ferryhill and Trimdon areas . |
| 30 | He says he 's already had a good response . |