Example sentences of "she [verb] a good [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , she made a good show of appearing delighted . |
| 2 | ‘ She made a good job of it too , ’ Alec explained , adding like a good Scot , ‘ and of course there 's a small benefit to me because now I draw a rent allowance . ’ |
| 3 | And she has a good pair of lungs to her , has n't she , Rose said to her three-year-old son Baptiste : she can scream good and proper that one can . |
| 4 | — She has a good head on her shoulders . |
| 5 | She has a good sense of humour , and very sporting : in other words a very nice person . |
| 6 | She has a good sense of humour — she will need it in the years to come . ’ |
| 7 | She has a good sense of humour and also shares quite a few of my interests . |
| 8 | If she makes sure she is looking good , feeling good , working well , she has a better chance of taking a cool look at him from a distance and deciding if she really wants him in her life . |
| 9 | But as those boxing her in came away from the rails at the entrance to the home stretch she found a good run up the inside , and when Teleprompter ran out of stamina with just over a furlong to go Pat Eddery shot the favourite into the lead and made for the wire . |
| 10 | When Beatrice visited the canteen in October 1914 she found a good deal of atmosphere , although there was no beer or wine . |
| 11 | She played a good game of bridge with her neighbours . |
| 12 | Her reputation was established with the nine-volume Illustrations of Political Economy , and she received a good income from her magazine contributions which enabled her to go to America in 1834 . |
| 13 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 14 | Both the local people and the expatriate community had been happy to befriend the pretty blonde newcomer and her infant son , with the result that whenever Ashley came down to the village she spent a good proportion of her time chatting . |
| 15 | She spent a good deal on the house ; well , it was his house , she kept it up for him , even afterwards . |
| 16 | This was not quite so convenient for her , and she spent a good deal of time travelling back and forth in her carriage . |
| 17 | She spent a good deal of time in the kitchen and bullied Dora into showing her how to make bread and pastry ; she would take cookery books up to her room and study the methods of jam making and preserving fruit and vegetables . |
| 18 | She relied a good deal on Lessing , whom she disliked but who had qualities that made him useful to her ; he was able to work out salaries , including those of his cousins in the Hampstead house , the expenses of running the theatre , lighting , heating , cleaning . |
| 19 | And now she took a better look at him , Folly could n't help noticing the strong , muscular lines of the broad back under that white shirt . |
| 20 | She troubles a good deal about the three hours that she 's lost . |
| 21 | And explain to her that although she did a good job with the Board of Directors , but erm , the ballbearings people wanted something different . |
| 22 | She did a good deal of field-work in the pubs of commuterland , achieving in her story ‘ Summer Schools ’ ( also in the 1958 volume ) an almost ‘ Gothic ’ horror . |
| 23 | ‘ We showed her that videofit you issued , she said it was him , and she gave a good description of the lorry . |
| 24 | Now , however , she had leisure to take in her surroundings , and she had a good look at an enormous house that she had barely glanced at before . |
| 25 | I kept Joanna in commission , her food locker in the small cuddy where I both cooked and slept well stocked with keeping-stores , and she had a good reserve of fuel for the outboard . |
| 26 | She had a good idea of what this revelation was going to be , and was even beginning to enjoy their discomfiture . |
| 27 | She had a good idea of what the envelope would contain , and she was already feeling faintly irritated . |
| 28 | ‘ But I would have guessed she had a good head for holding her drink . |
| 29 | The doctor had helped assess the problem because she had a good relationship with her patient and had documented all her injuries . |
| 30 | She had a good view of the hospital entrance , so she started her private game of guessing what the people were . |