Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top management is clearly very important to the organisation , and managers are realising that management information systems can help them make better decisions . |
| 2 | Most of them became good Americans . |
| 3 | Young Black and I became good friends . |
| 4 | When I read Best Defence … ‘ |
| 5 | Sasbach was no exception and I made good progress with Pascal 's Pensées . |
| 6 | The snow improved as the slope steepened and I made good time up the 100 metres to the ridge top and along to the ‘ summit ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ If I 'd been educated proper , I expect I 'd be able to talk more , ’ said Dolly , ‘ specially if I 'ad good looks and not just a sort of orphanage face . |
| 8 | Well if they take as long to do it I mean good heavens there 's been one clanking manhole cover at Halam and it has taken them weeks to do it . |
| 9 | Hopefully I have improved in that regard and perhaps also I make better assessment of what is on . |
| 10 | he reckons I make better pastry than what I . |
| 11 | I would that you were with us to hear me play the piano which I do every day and Papa declares I make good progress . |
| 12 | ‘ I got good contact but it was straight at Chris , ’ recalled Linighan . |
| 13 | So far as he was concerned , I could become a Muslim or a Jew , provided I got good School Certificates . |
| 14 | I got good end of term report . |
| 15 | I got better results than if I 'd stayed at school . |
| 16 | I got better results than what they did with their with their fancy gadgets . |
| 17 | I got better results than some of the actual fifteen year olds . |
| 18 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 19 | ‘ Because I hate good music , ’ said Lydia . |
| 20 | I want good finance women and I want good information women . |
| 21 | I want good finance women and I want good information women . |
| 22 | Yes , and when I celebrate good times , I do it with Dregs . |
| 23 | I deserved better treatment than that . |
| 24 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 25 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 26 | I like my colleagues and I earn good money . |
| 27 | The people are very tolerant and it has been overheard that I speak better Portuguese than I do English . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's for the job , ’ he says proudly , ‘ I get promotion if I speak good English . ’ |
| 29 | I paid good money for that , I said , ca n't I just have a last go on it ? |
| 30 | I paid good money for this vehicle and I wo n't have the likes of you doing what you 're doing ! |