Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward G. Robinson had been good in the previous year 's Little Caesar and there was to be great acclaim for the explicitness of the following year 's Scarface but it was Cagney 's 1931 performance in The Public Enemy that occasioned the most significant debate . |
| 2 | The morning 's bulletin on Harry had been good , the prognosis excellent , his memory of events reportedly clarifying fast . |
| 3 | God had been good to them ! |
| 4 | During their schooldays at Eton , Johnnie Spencer and the Earl of Dartmouth had been good friends . |
| 5 | The Parsons had been good to me . |
| 6 | Jim had been good with relatives , but Jack had some extra dimension to add to it . |
| 7 | Paul had been good company . |
| 8 | He had heard that the Feds at Lockerbie had been good as gold , working at the pace required , picking up on every small detail provided by the forensic team at Farnborough , where the 747 had been reconstructed . |
| 9 | He was a very clever scientist , and five years ago he and Dorian had been good friends . |
| 10 | A last chance of compromise seemed possible when the veteran Léon Blum became the head of government in December : his pre-war record towards Vietnam had been good . |
| 11 | ‘ She and Phillip had been good friends since the 40s . |