Example sentences of "[pron] have good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Traditional building materials such as mud will have a role to play only when the national objective is to ensure that everyone has better housing now .
2 Is not that why everyone has good reason to know that Tory Governments mean higher VAT ?
3 ‘ I am certain of it , ’ he replied , but promptly settled her heartbeats to a dull , steady rhythm once more by adding , ‘ because of your car , did n't I have good reason to contact you ? ’
4 The Mainbocher triumphs were spiced with occasional purchases in Paris , but on the whole she found French clothes too imposing : ‘ I had better things to do in Paris than go for endless fittings anyway .
5 I had better things to do than just sit in an office talking .
6 In each round I had good lane draws and ran comfortably .
7 And that 's only because I had good teachers — I do n't think that I have any special superhuman gift for it . ’
8 B : Nicest — I had good fun
9 I had good reason then to suspect that it could well be .
10 I felt I had good cause .
11 I had good cause to enjoy the many favours bestowed upon me by my inspector friend with the Cambridge police .
12 I 've better things to do than make a fool of myself with you .
13 But I do n't like it here , and I 've good reason for going .
14 ‘ I know lobster is extortionately expensive here but you know I have good vibes about this contract … ’
15 Thus , perhaps , I believe that my children are at present playing in the garden at home , and I have good reasons for this belief .
16 I have good reasons to be doubtful .
17 I have good managers , ’ he said , the corners of his mouth curving in amusement , and Claudia realised who he was .
18 I have good teeth and they 've been known to blind at five yards in strong sunlight .
19 I have good friends , and if I can keep my faculties — if my eyesight behaves itself and my hearing stays good — then I shall be content
20 ‘ Yes — and I have good neighbours which is pleasant . ’
21 Just below the hump I could make out — I have good eyes — the dark outline of what must be the ruined broch , and beside that , in its shelter , was a speck of bright , alien orange .
22 I have good reason to remember a booklength early monograph of hers , published in the British journal of Animal Behaviour : it was almost the first text I ever read as an apprentice sub-editor .
23 Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things :
24 ‘ I think I have good reason to feel sorry for myself ! ’
25 ‘ I am so certain of my place here that I would have resigned anyway , and now I have good reason three times over … my nerve had already failed twice , and could n't do so again … . ’
26 ‘ My lord , I have good reason to know that it was you who said a word for me in his Grace 's ear , and gave me this day for thought , and even offered me arguments I was not wise enough to find for myself .
27 I have good reason for my request . ’
28 I have good reason to believe the occupants are terrorists .
29 All in all , I think I have good reason to hate her .
30 I have good reason .
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