Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adv] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally I reckon this Mr Quinn has done a pretty good job . |
| 2 | Alan Davies has done a very good job in a short space of time and if he remains as coach for three seasons or more Wales will be in with a fighting chance for the future — and certainly in the next World Cup ’ . |
| 3 | Howard Davies has done a very good job there . |
| 4 | I have just read the article in November 's Today 's Horse on gadgets by Carolyn Henderson and I would like to say that in my opinion she has done a very good job pointing out the dangers of people with their own horses who resort to gadgets to get an outline and not to time and schooling . |
| 5 | We are delighted to report that Ann McMillan has made a very good recovery from her operation . |
| 6 | A complete refurbishment programme carried out by the family owners has produced a particularly good standard of accommodation for a hotel of this class . |
| 7 | The Trust has produced a very good booklet which costs £1 to everyone except Daily Mirror readers . |
| 8 | Green records when he has had a particularly good meal : after eating at the Swan in Grasmere , with Anne , he writes ‘ the dinner good and cheap , all cheerful … |
| 9 | When a gentleman has had a particularly good meal , Bogtrotter , he always sends his complements to the chef . |
| 10 | If he has had a very good recovery , he may get onto the plinth at a low height and kneel on all fours , and then be guided downwards to lie on his stomach . |
| 11 | Erm I do a lot of er large goods vehicle training and if you get erm with a very large vehicle thirty eight tonnes , you can not , even with an artic which has got a very good dogleg to get round , you can not do it . |
| 12 | On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living . |
| 13 | would have presented a very good budget for |
| 14 | Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved . |
| 15 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
| 16 | By the age of 18 or 20 , he had completed his apprenticeship in life : he might have become a very good photographer , probably an excellent painter , a good mountaineer and hiker , or a fine skier . |
| 17 | In some alternate , barely credible dimension , this almost inexplicable first shot in the Great Columbus Wars ( Gerard Depardieu and Jim Dale still to come ) must have seemed a really good idea . |
| 18 | They proved to be worthy Finalists having beaten a very good Cork team by three goals to one in the Semi-Final . |
| 19 | From this it is evident that if Negus Mikael had advanced immediately after seizing Ankober , when the army of Fitaurari Habta Giorgis was still far from complete he would have stood a very good chance of entering Addis Ababa , in which case the whole course of events would have been altered . |
| 20 | I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ? |
| 21 | er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm |
| 22 | Nixon had tried to govern without congress and Ford had been pathetically inconsequential ; Carter , in his memoirs , claimed to have had a reasonably good relationship with the legislature , but this was not a widely shared view . |
| 23 | IMPERIAL Chemical Industries seems to have struck a surprisingly good $450m ( £285m ) deal with Johnson & Johnson and Merck in swapping its US over-the counter pharmaceutical business for the rights to an established anti-depressant drug and a substantial , if as yet unquantified , cash sum . |
| 24 | Think of this craft as an art form — if you had painted a really good watercolour you would n't nip down to your local chainstore and buy a very basic and somewhat unattractive frame for your work of art . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've picked a fucking good time to pay people a visit ! ’ |
| 26 | In this case , they 've done a pretty good job , though Jeff Bridges gives the part of the kidnapper an unnecessary weirdness . |
| 27 | In this case , they 've done a pretty good job , though Jeff Bridges gives the part of the kidnapper an unnecessary weirdness . |
| 28 | You 've got some mate , do n't worry Mm , lovely bread mm , mm , mm Mum thinks the decoration it 's lovely , she said tell him you 've done a really good job , shush |
| 29 | It looks as if you 've done a very good turn to me and to a lot of other people this afternoon . |
| 30 | ‘ Ah , well , I can see now , they 've made a pretty good job of it . |