Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stock dove almost disappeared from some areas , but , like other species that were hard-hit at the same time , it has since made a good recovery . |
| 2 | The daughter has finally made a good marriage , after a dodgy one . |
| 3 | Nadia has already seen a good deal of Scotland , and also went on a school trip to France and Belgium when pupils of St Mary 's accompanied members of a pensioners ' lunch club to find out about the European Community and the European Parliament . |
| 4 | In all , 255 young trees were planted , a huge task which was completed by the garden team at Nymans in ten days and which has already gone a good way towards restoring the diversity of colours , shapes and textures of conifers in their prime . |
| 5 | The increasing though still very minimal panicipation of women in managerial , technical and higher professional occupations within the corporation has already attracted a good deal of attention , but there is little research specifically on the phenomenon of the female salariat in TNCs in the Third World ( see Garnsey and Paukert , 1987 , pp.57–67 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ First team coach Liam O'Kane has always had a good relationship with the players and he , too , would come into contention . |
| 7 | Furthermore , Brook has also developed a good working relationship with other voluntary groups and welfare organisations . |
| 8 | Bennett has also made a good recovery from a torn thigh muscle but insisted : ‘ I 'll only play when I 'm 100pc right . |
| 9 | He has also got a good routine going with his putting now that his caddie , Fanny Sunesson , has stopped crouching down behind him before he putts to make sure he is aiming in the right direction . |
| 10 | He 'd better have a good reason for ringing me up on Christmas Day ! |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd better have a good reason for all this , Lizzy , because I want to know exactly what 's going on with you . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Having apparently made a good case ( to wit , the UK now spends nearly two per cent less per head on education than in 1980 ) it starts talking about education . |
| 14 | Then when you 've all found a good combination , you do it for a while , then you turn on the tape machine … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I mean , let's face it , I 'm in a no-win Situation , and quite honestly , I 'm so stuffed up to here with the whole Stupid mess that , I can tell you , I 've just Got a good mind to take the quick way out . |
| 17 | And it 's wired right into the power amp , so you do n't have to worry about tone circuits or reverbs — you 've just got a good sound to play along with . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Northern Foods had always had a good name locally , and had earned respect for its relations with its workers . |
| 20 | Mr Wilson had also said a good deal about modernizing the machinery of government . |
| 21 | We 've now got a good package which saves us nearly eighty thousand pounds and to actually undo all of that and create an awful lot of public disquiet plus a problem with regard to potential redundancy to particular saving that accommodates this as the absolutely completely inane and except for where it came from , I would be gobsmacked if it came tonight . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It forms a bypass around Crowmarsh Gifford and had previously had a good safety record . |
| 26 | Can I reiterate what he he actually said in a meeting with Calum er Carole Degucht er last year er he said I do y the honourable , my honourable friend said I do not see that uniformity means adopting a system of proportional representation and I 've yet to see a good case as to the merits of different states adopting the same procedure . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've never ducked a good fight in my life , it 's personal between us and I would love to fight him . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 've never had a good experience of a boss with a short upper lip , ’ said Fred . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I have already put a good deal of stress upon two contrasted aspects of what seems to me to be the central paradox of anthropology considered as an intellectual discipline . |