Example sentences of "[vb past] his good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his subjects evidently doubted his good faith , for in June the tax collectors in Staffordshire and Shropshire were resisted on the ground that the king had not carried out his promises regarding the forest . |
| 2 | Gennadi Potrovsky still found his good fortune hard to believe . |
| 3 | He found his best sport was — he tried to watch sports and tell people about them . |
| 4 | Marvellous wedding he 'd have if they found his best man at midnight somewhere in the Midlands with his head bashed in . |
| 5 | He used his best prose on the earlier stuff about tongues meeting and breasts being cupped . |
| 6 | Billy Bingham , whose make-do-and-mend team were no match for their southern neighbours ' withering power game , added his good wishes . |
| 7 | Nicholas , presented with the problem of capitulated Kyrenia , adopted his best bulldog stance and based himself , perforce , in the north in the weeks after his marriage . |
| 8 | Carrick was superbly backed up by paceman Mark Robinson , who thoroughly deserved his best figures for Yorkshire of three for 34 . |
| 9 | The 24-year-old , runner-up in the recent Welsh Amateur Championship , scored his best win to date by two strokes from MacPherson , when at one stage it looked as if he would miss the cut . |
| 10 | He had more practical ideas ; on Mondays , he invited the schools and booked his best musicians to talk , sing and play . |
| 11 | Diana took her revenge when royal writer Morton prepared his best seller . |
| 12 | He played his best shot of the round , a long , low 3-wood , which landed short of the slope at the front of the platform green and ran up level with the flag . |
| 13 | I rubbed some of the fragrant perfume my master used into my neck and cheeks , borrowed his best cambric shirt , cloak and hood , and slunk back to the courtyard . |
| 14 | In the presence of such flattery and with the taste of ale once more on his lips , Sir John regained his good temper and this time listened attentively as Athelstan spoke . |
| 15 | There Ranulf quickly regained his good humour he pointed to a group of Spaniards in their multi-coloured hoods , mantles and stupendous codpieces . |
| 16 | In Lamb , above , the accused pulled the trigger of a gun and killed his best friend , but there was no assault because both did not expect a bullet to come out of the barrel . |
| 17 | Freed.Driver who killed his best friend is told you 've suffered enough . |
| 18 | He raised his good arm and struck the glass with his elbow , a single jab which shattered the window . |
| 19 | He told one correspondent that Eliot owed his best poetry to Pound — he was convinced that there would eventually be a vogue in favour of Pound which would take the form of a reaction against Eliot ( in that he was to be proved right ) . |
| 20 | But Ferreira , who had not come close to breaking the sixth seed , suddenly discovered his best form , hitting three glorious forehands , including one to save match point , and capturing the game when Stich hit a backhand volley out . |
| 21 | In 1951 he made his highest score , an 87 against Glamorgan , and also returned his best analysis , seven wickets for 49 against Lancashire , both at the Oval . |
| 22 | Dexter decided his best weapon was irony . |
| 23 | He told Stirling that he needed his best men himself and he was not going to allow them to join the SAS after the ‘ failure at Benghazi ’ . |
| 24 | William was taught by his father , a schoolmaster from Northamptonshire , and inherited his good writing . |
| 25 | That aroused his better half . |
| 26 | He thought his best period was the pictures he did in the Thirties , when he worked in France ’ . |
| 27 | FIRE hero Dave Nellis has spoken of his terror when he saw his best friend turned into a human torch . |
| 28 | He wore his better Jeans and a laundered shirt , open at the neck . |
| 29 | He wore his best suit , a clean silk shirt and shaved extra close . |
| 30 | He had discarded his uniform and wore his best suit , a light pearly grey , with a brightly-coloured necktie , and a rose in his buttonhole . |