Example sentences of "he [verb] a good [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , he owned a good deal of this land and could stop any building on his own acres . |
| 2 | Finally , he devoted a good deal of attention to the problem of the implications of his general historical approach for understanding the character of Christianity itself , particularly in The Absoluteness of Christianity ( 1901 ; E.T . |
| 3 | He caught a good couple of pounds of roach on ledgered casters from bites that were all but invisible . |
| 4 | He fights well , he mans and maintains his castles well — God knows not all in the marches do so ! — and he has a good grasp of tactics in the field . |
| 5 | It is impossible to watch the towplane and the ground ahead during the climb out so that in the event of a launch failure the glider pilot has to look for a field , whereas in the normal tow position he has a good view of the fields ahead all the time . |
| 6 | Though he has a good deal of contact with senior officials ( and in the northern agency spends most of his time at headquarters ) he has a strong loyalty to the field officers in his area , retaining from his own earlier experience as a field officer what he feels to be a sympathetic understanding of practical problems . |
| 7 | He has a good amount of strong , grey hair . |
| 8 | Gerald Ford , the leader of the Republicans in the House , ‘ might have become a pretty good Grand Rapids insurance agent ; he played a good game of golf , but he was n't excessively bright ’ . |
| 9 | Why did he expect a good crop of sugarbeet ? |
| 10 | For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes . |
| 11 | Although he spent a good part of each year in England , he ruled in the personal manner of his father and great-uncle . |
| 12 | To correct the curve it was necessary to stretch the concavity and contract the convexity — in furtherance of which he spent a good deal of his time moving across the floor in a peculiar creeping posture , which Doctor Staples referred to as ‘ Klapp 's crawl ’ . |
| 13 | He spent a good deal of time in his satires , presenting himself as a satirist — unplaced , unpensioned , no man 's heir or slave he proudly describes himself as he tells us that he 's willing to lash out at even the most eminent public figures . |
| 14 | On the appointed day Modigliani appeared looking confident and distinguished in his cords and red scarf ; he ordered a good bottle of wine and began to rhapsodize about Gaby 's beauty and charm . |
| 15 | At the Wardrobe , he undertook a good deal of the accounting work himself , but used three of his own dependants — Hales , Raylton , and Cotton — when he was too busy . |
| 16 | He kept complaining in his broad Lancashire accent that he needed a good dose of his mother 's ‘ Lancashire remedy ’ — a mixture of ipecacuanha and liquorice to which he was addicted . |
| 17 | He derived a good deal of entertainment from watching the engaged couples that came in . |
| 18 | He saw a good deal of Eden in the next months , and with a genuine desire to see him Prime Minister gave him a lot of advice . |
| 19 | The next day he went for a long walk , about 20 miles , during which he did a good deal of clear thinking in the mountains . |
| 20 | He had a good idea of what was coming . |
| 21 | He had a good head of dark brown hair , and it looked as if he knew a decent barber . |
| 22 | As this was something of a lovers ' lane , he had a good chance of catching a couple knobbing on the back seat And Steve , as I 'd already found out for myself , always did like a bit of voyeurism . |
| 23 | He had a good knowledge of Scotland , particularly the bagpipes , and I am sure if I had offered to go along to Brigade HQ to fetch my bagpipes he would have had me marching up and down the orchard playing his favourite tunes , much to the consternation of the other Commandos , and possibly the annoyance of the Germans just a short distance away . |
| 24 | The later epitaph suggests that he had a good knowledge of canon law : ‘ legis / doctorem tenuit illa ’ ( namely Gallia ) . |
| 25 | He had a good chain of cinemas , as well as a strong network of contacts in Central Europe . |
| 26 | From the open door of the shed he had a good view of Firelight grazing and she got to know where he was and would come up to the hedge close by and wait for titbits . |
| 27 | Allen stole forward to a point where he had a good view of the Waste . |
| 28 | He had a good view of the long shadowy main corridor . |
| 29 | Doyle crouched behind a hedge , a hundred yards from the house , in a position where he had a good view of the road in both directions . |
| 30 | He had a good view of the main road and the side track that climbed to the row , and he could see a part of the buildings themselves , small and neat and quiet . |