Example sentences of "had be [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So , Mavis at least had been getting a good earful .
2 Maudie had been expecting a better response from her friends , or at the very least a little sympathy , but they seemed not to care .
3 The single women who hitherto had been considered a good influence on the girls were relegated to obscurity whilst the married heterosexual women were left to emerge as the ( acceptable and healthy ) role models .
4 In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them .
5 His brother Dmitrii had been making a good case for emancipation at the War Ministry , but his own importance , in the long run , was to be greater .
6 And Jonathan would never have recognised her as the girl to whom he had become engaged , the easygoing girl whose only concern had been to have a good time , however much money it took .
7 If Leeds had been playing a better team they would n't have won but such is the game that you ca n't play the big boys everyday ( thank God ) and Leeds eventually , to the fans relief , and mine too , registered their first win in four games and hopefully gained a confidence booster both for their defence and for our new goalkeeper Beeney who was called on to make only two saves , important as they were .
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