Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the 1950s they had lost a good deal of their influence over him to the Americans . |
| 2 | They had done a good job at that garage . |
| 3 | ‘ We recognized that they were a new club , that they had obtained a good holding in a Rugby area and that the club had bright prospects , but our case was clear — Leeds were defiant , and could be defiant through one cause — fear of the papers giving away certain secrets . ’ |
| 4 | He was slow to sign up two aged persons as being of unsound mind , and only did so after they had given a good deal of trouble at the workhouse . |
| 5 | William Dement woke six subjects in this systematic way over a period of six nights , and found that on the first night they did seem to " start all over again " whenever properly woken , so that by the end of the night they had achieved a good deal of slow wave sleep and very little REM sleep . |
| 6 | They had had a good run for their money and there were still thousands of reels of tape to be analysed and matched against other intelligence sources . |