Example sentences of "we [verb] [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We intend to use a good number of the shots for promotional and exhibition uses in the run up to the 1993 Year of Railways .
2 As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job .
3 We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’
4 I thought we 'd got a good team .
5 So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get .
6 And after I 'd explained , and we 'd laughed a good deal , and taken off each others ’ wet clothes , it was .
7 We seem to have a good time whenever we 're out and always have something to talk about , which is really great .
8 I was er Chairman of Public Health and various chim , I was Chairman of the Road Safety , which I was very interested in I was very road safety conscious and we each were given a job which we tried to do the best we could with and then we well , whatever we were asked to do we began to make a good town , you know ?
9 Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’
10 As before we continue to receive a good flow of donations from the work of the Presidents Committee and their approaches to company contacts .
11 The Conservatives believe that the government 's role is to ensure that we continue to have a good foundation of basic and strategic science on which industry can draw , to encourage a good supply of up-to-date and creative scientists , and to encourage the right climate for successful innovation .
12 Head gardener Matthew Hayes , who trained at Emerson College , Sussex , a leading centre for organic horticulture , says : ‘ We aim to provide a good insight into sound organic practice , which visitors can adopt in their own garden or allotment . ’
13 Yeah we did have a good afternoon .
14 We know very little about the world history of such ideas and their dialectical development , but we do know a good deal about how things have gone in the main literate civilizations over the past four thousand years .
15 Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at .
16 That 's the team of management that I , together with one or two others , built up from scratch at the beginning of the Liberal Democrats , and we now in Stockport have a highly successful erm m As I say , tier of management for training , for campaigning , for policy development in Stockport , and as you probably know we do have a good record of winning local council seats .
17 ‘ They 're not snooty and they take us down the pub for a drink if we 've done a good job . ’
18 And if we put a little bit more effort into specifying requirements more tightly , then there 'd be less argument at the end of the day as to whether we 've done a good job or a bad job .
19 So Christopher said yes , so he said well he said , he said Mark said well we 've done a good job this afternoon so I thought that was nice of him
20 And I think we 've seen a good number of those erm from the Telegraph , the Mail and the Express , going to the Times .
21 ‘ We 're confident we 've created a good product , ’ says centre manager Stuart Goldie .
22 We 've made a good beginning , ’ he said , interrupting Kate 's account of how Ginny Salperton had met David Quest .
23 And sir the other strand which we 've heard a good deal about has been the nature of the vegetative screen which occurs between D thirty nine and D forty on the one hand , and land to the north of it on the other .
24 ‘ We 've been in this situation before , where we 've needed a good result away from home only to lose 1–0 , ’ he said .
25 We 've been a bit lucky because , although our ball is in high rough — and I mean high ; it was up to Greg 's knees — we 've caught a good lie , so he can hit a pitching-wedge back on to the fairway .
26 ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon .
27 We 've got a good squad .
28 We 've got a good speedway side …
29 We 've got a good mixture of clean , crisp colours and more muted shades which should have appeal for everybody , ’ said , Porter Paints manager of marketing planning and services .
30 that 's the one so they seem to think we 've got a good case so
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