Example sentences of "you be [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , if you are eating a good diet , not smoking cigarettes , consuming little alcohol , are physically and mentally well , aged between 18 and 65 years , and not pregnant or breast-feeding , then you should not need any nutritional supplements . |
| 2 | By getting used to eating oranges rather than drinking orange juice , eating apples rather than drinking apple juice , and so on , you are establishing a good habit which will help to control your weight in the future . |
| 3 | I guess everyone said it is 95 per cent curable ; the treatment is good ; you are making a good recovery . |
| 4 | ‘ When you both feel light-hearted enough to enjoy your baby , you are making a good start ’ says Infant Care on its second page , and Spock uses the same injunction , ‘ Enjoy Your Baby ’ , as a subheading in his chapter ‘ The Right Start ’ . |
| 5 | The average glass of wine contains between 90–100 calories , and it is difficult to stop at one when you are having a good meal . |
| 6 | It means that , by a certain amount of fairly skilful organization over the year , you 're meeting a good cross-section of senior and middle management . |
| 7 | How do you know you 're getting a good workout ? |
| 8 | ‘ Not too far when you 're having a good time . |
| 9 | In America , as long as you 're having a good time right now , it 's valid ; if in the next century it 's all forgotten , then that 's okay too . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're spending a good deal of time in New York now , Mark . |
| 11 | But but no , you used to think they 're doing , you 're doing a good service are n't you ? |
| 12 | But from what I can gather from his scrawls you 're doing a good job . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You 're doing a good job . ’ |
| 14 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 15 | Oh you 're doing a good job there John . |
| 16 | you 're doing a good job here are n't you ? |
| 17 | I 'm I 'd like to know what it 's like running Oxford City Council when , and I 'm sure you think you 're doing an good job and many people probably do think you 're a good job , but there are lots of issues that need discussing . |
| 18 | ‘ You did n't know that while you were having a good Christmas , Hester was making arrangements to send him away ? ’ |
| 19 | You were making a good point there . |
| 20 | As long as you kept the public happy and there were no complaints — no-one could find any complaints to write into Head Office with — you were doing a good job . |