Example sentences of "have [verb] a good [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , that a poet has written a good poem does not mean he or she is always capable of another , and to read Duck 's career as an arrested development may be sentimental . |
| 2 | To its credit , Fimbra has done a good job weeding out some of the black sheep . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He 'd had a good line going with a number of the wives out here — what man had n't ? |
| 5 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 6 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 7 | She always said she could have done a better job running the place than the Director or his boss , Controller Establishment Research and Nuclear . |
| 8 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 9 | Any member of stab who went into the Biology Lab before her would have needed a good excuse to explain his presence there , unless , of course , he was a member of the Biology Department . |
| 10 | That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months . |
| 11 | She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You 'll have to take a good swim to find him the night , over to Holland , I 'd say . |
| 14 | Mr Robin Cook , shadow Health Secretary , said : ‘ We could not have chosen a better issue to put centre stage for the first televised session of Parliament . ’ |
| 15 | And the victim could have chosen a better place to voice throaty communist sentiments . |
| 16 | GRAEME HICK finally lived up to his tag as England 's saviour yesterday — and the one-time ‘ Boy Wonder ’ could not have chosen a better moment to put his wretched Test record behind him . |
| 17 | SINEAD Donaghy could n't have chosen a better time to score her first goal of the season . |
| 18 | The growth of western power and activity in Asia had done a good deal to extend the geographical scope of European-type diplomacy . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got a good man living in that old place of yours above the stables , ’ said Tom , enjoying a warm at the kitchen fire before riding on . |
| 20 | And I reckon that we 've got a good chance beating Sheffield Wednesday at football . |
| 21 | who the hell you think you are I 've got a good mind to put your beard right in this food |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , since everyone 's giving speeches , I may as well take a turn , ’ he said , and it was at once apparent from his voice that he had had a good deal to drink . |
| 24 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |
| 25 | It had seemed a good idea to set up his incident room in the local primary school . |
| 26 | Lord Beddington was not appreciating the day to its fullest , despite the fact that for some unknown reason it had seemed a good idea to buy a Panama hat . |
| 27 | As Jamie was 10 shots behind going into the final round at Crans , his regular caddie , Mark Steers , was quite confident that he had chosen a good week to take off . |
| 28 | ‘ At the moment , Clive and Trevor have got a good pattern going and I do n't think playing three strikers figures in the manager 's plans . ’ |
| 29 | Once you have found a good retailer do n't fall into the trap of also buying from sources that are less ideal . |