Example sentences of "[vb past] it [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old tiger himself pronounced it a good idea , even if his friends had to listen in a state of uncharacteristic sobriety . |
| 2 | I 'm a comparative newcomer to this computer age that many people of my generation would rather try to ignore … but you really ca n't … and as an owner of a computer and an 8 year old , I found it a good read and picked up lots of new tips on home entertainment/education as well . |
| 3 | She called it a good house , because the maid always kept things for her . |
| 4 | ‘ I — we — thought it a good idea at the time , with the late closing and it so hard to get people off the premises — and all the cleaning up to be done afterwards … ‘ |
| 5 | Nails thought it a good idea . |
| 6 | A hundred years of county council government seems a strange reason to create a long distance path , but North Yorkshire County Council thought it a good enough excuse . |
| 7 | As talking had helped Violet , the girl in Hope , I thought it a good idea to let him talk himself to sleep . |
| 8 | My enterprising publishers , the same Little , Brown , thought it a good idea for me to present copies to Roman Catholic opinion makers . |
| 9 | We thought it a good idea to start off by hiring a motor caravan , or camper van as they 're called in NZ , but as it was quite expensive we took it for a fortnight just to try it . |
| 10 | I thought it a good idea . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Because I thought it a good idea to have your home address , ’ he added , in the same tone . |
| 12 | She hesitated to call it a party , but the hostess thought it a good opporotunity to invite round like-minded friends . |
| 13 | Er they had a lock , made it a good lock and sent it to all the clients and this is what we can supply , and it used to meet the needs of clients and they 'd er they 'd erm buy it and it kept them in business , you see what I mean ? |
| 14 | I think it 's about time we actually put that word back into the dictionary and made it a good word to have . |
| 15 | She , Madame Gauthier , wife of the proprietor , had her business to attend to , and this kind of scandal did it no good at all . |
| 16 | She carefully left enough of her father 's original hair tonic in the bottle so that when she gave it a good shake the whole thing still looked reasonably purple . |
| 17 | The mountain goat 's ancestry , as a member of the Bovid family , gave it a good start : it gave the animal the means of subsisting on the poor mountain vegetation , and it provided it with feet that could be adapted to moving around in the precipitous terrain . |
| 18 | She knew that they both considered it a good solution to the difficulties existing at present , and this was disturbing . |