Example sentences of "i [vb past] the good [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided the best thing to do was keep busy , so I tried to recall my antenatal classes — I could n't remember a thing . |
| 2 | I thought the best thing to do was spare Oliver 's blushes , so I murmured something about getting off to work . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Dr. Elliott Gabellah , acting President of the African National Council — with whom I had the good fortune to breakfast , morning after morning , at the Caux world assembly last August — is conferring with Presidents Kaunda and Nyerere in Zambia . |
| 4 | I had the good fortune to sit between Ian Bedford , whom I have known since he was a teenager ; and David Sieff , so I never had a dull moment ! |
| 5 | In 1957 I had the good fortune to visit the geologically exciting country of Turkey , to look at some of the local Mesozoic rocks and their faunas . |
| 6 | On 6th May — the day on which , incidentally , it actually snowed ! — I had the good fortune to play in the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major , which formed one halfofa concert in the second part of which was the first performance of Vaughan Williams ' Sancta Civitas . |
| 7 | After interviewing Susannah ( this was back in 1980 on the set of The Awakening ) , I had the good fortune to meet and interview John Huston and I challenged him on Susannah 's story . |
| 8 | On a recent visit to New Zealand , my wife and I had the good fortune to meet up with Alf and Muriel Newton . |
| 9 | I had the good fortune to have two older sisters around the house , who basically had to do all the nasty dirty work . |
| 10 | I had the good fortune to work with a brilliant head of department , and paid £10 for a 1927 Austin 7 in which I drove uncertainly every day from Wimbledon . |
| 11 | My subject was French history , and although my focus was on a relatively obscure piece of ecclesiastical history I had the good fortune to work with the most genial and scholarly of humanists , Professor Alfred Cobban of the University of London . |
| 12 | Before sunrise I had the good fortune to discover that it was no longer necessary to maintain the horizontal posture , and came out on deck at two o'clock in the morning to see a noble full moon sinking westward and millions of the most brilliant stars shining overhead . |
| 13 | I had the good sense to let go of the trumpet case and try and keep rolling out of range . |