Example sentences of "had [verb] a good [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gains had been welcomed by the government as confirmation that its economic policies had received a good response from investors . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As long ago as 1172 Henry II had promised to mount a crusade and ever since then he had done nothing about it — though he had given a good deal of financial aid to the stricken kingdom . |
| 4 | As before , he was concerned to hear that we had enjoyed a good flight to his native city , had found a good hotel and that we were managing to survive the bitter cold , the snow and the ice of a Canadian winter . |
| 5 | The Collector had sat a good deal in this chair over the past few days and it had come to affect his habits of thought . |
| 6 | To give him his due , Sorley had picked a good place for his sneak preview of Patterson 's mail . |
| 7 | His educational opportunities had been considerable and he had seen a good deal of Russian government from the inside . |
| 8 | Anne , the Pixie Second , often ran errands for her , and at one time or another most of the Brownies in the Pack had done a good turn for the little old lady . |
| 9 | They had done a good job at that garage . |
| 10 | Coun Jones said the team had done a good job for the whole community . |
| 11 | The Civil Affairs Service had done a good job in my estimation . |
| 12 | The PR Department had made a good start in the CASB period with Colonel Glass in charge . |
| 13 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ said Loretta , grateful that her unpremeditated action the day before had made a good impression on Veronica . |
| 14 | He must have been sixty or so , but you had to get close to see it and if his hair was grey , someone had made a good job of disguising the fact . |
| 15 | The malai photographers had made a good job of it , this genuine FAKINTIL atrocity . |
| 16 | Incidentally , I was interested to read in the Financial Times and other newspapers today that the foreman in the Guinness 2 trial of Mr. Seelig and Lord Spens said that the prosecution had made a good job of identifying the structure of that case . |
| 17 | In fact , one of her students who was black showed a remarkable sympathy with Emily Dickinson , and had written a good essay on the short poem beginning , ‘ Drowning is not so pitiful/As the attempt to rise ’ . |
| 18 | My letter was published in full , and I was pleased with myself , for two good reasons : my first literary effort had been accepted ; and I had had a good swipe at the evils of fascism , judging by the stream of supporting letters which followed . |
| 19 | Once Barbara had had a good look at her new style in the mirror , she was very pleased with the change . |
| 20 | Again , they could have gone into the supermarket , but they thought the police had had a good look at them , so they sprinted through the crowds who took as little notice as they expected , and across the street just after the lights had changed 50 that the traffic beginning to move , hooted . |
| 21 | The whole operation had taken a few seconds only , a little huddle of activity in all of which the discreet entry of Liz Spalding to the house had had a good chance of going unnoticed by any distant , watching eyes . |
| 22 | He had had a good day at the office and his head had not troubled him ; they seemed pleased with his work ; he had been looking forward to telling her about it over supper , and now this . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The objectives of Rolls Royce had been met — a group of highly intelligent , well-motivated students had had a good experience of the engineering industry , and their interest in an engineering career had , by their own account , been greatly increased as a result . |
| 25 | He and Charlie had had a good laugh over that particular house , but there had been something serious in Charlie 's laughter and Jack had guessed he aimed high . |
| 26 | He had had a good idea for a story the previous lesson and spent much time preparing a detailed picture to start it off . |
| 27 | He had had a good deal of experience of the deliberate malice of political adversaries , who felt for him a genuine fear that was replaced by contempt only for his lesser colleagues . |
| 28 | Fortunately he had had a good deal of practice in this . |
| 29 | Andre Moga , the president of Beglès and one of the so-called ‘ barons ’ of French rugby , made the following comment : ‘ If Rodez had had a good president at the time this would not have reached court ’ . |
| 30 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |