Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow , when she 'd had a good night 's sleep , she 'd be much better capable of dealing with him . |
| 2 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
| 3 | By now she 'd had a good look at him . |
| 4 | she 'd left a good gold star by your name . |
| 5 | But as a dutiful wife , she managed to put a good face on it , particularly after her husband promised they would return again in the spring . |
| 6 | One compositor , Jean Henderson whose daughter kindly provided me with information , went into the trade ( in the 1890s , that is some time after the earliest entrants ) straight from the Dean Orphanage , where she had received a good education ( see Plate 1 ) . |
| 7 | She had lost a good deal of her bloom and bounce , and looked as if the sentiments of the burial service kept stabbing her to the heart . |
| 8 | She had done a good deal more than that . |
| 9 | A midwife with 25 years experience , she thought she had done a good job — then she discovered the truth . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Dr Jonathan Karn , of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge , said she had shown a good grasp of the issues and he praised her role in changing public attitudes to the disease . |