Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] like a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked like a good cunt . |
| 2 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 3 | ‘ The hotel bar was closed and we were all famished so it seemed like a good idea to trek down to the local ‘ pub ’ to search out a few sarnies , ’ says Gedge . |
| 4 | You did not go off and set up house with the man in your life and perhaps think about marriage if it seemed like a good idea , after a year or two . |
| 5 | It seemed like a good idea to ask for ‘ guinea pigs ’ to test the diet . |
| 6 | Becoming entangled in the web you have woven ; after all , ‘ it seemed like a good idea at the time ’ . |
| 7 | The switchboard answered quickly and it seemed like a good omen . |
| 8 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 9 | Then , there 's never been a shortage of contributions for London 's musical guidebook ; have all helped to flesh out its pages , along with ‘ Kings Cross ’ , a song that the Pet Shop Boys wrote ( a ) ‘ Because it 's the London terminus you reach if you come down from the North-East ’ ; ( b ) Chris Lowe lived there ; and ( c ) ‘ It seemed like a good title about people waiting . |
| 10 | In the meantime , my thirteenth birthday was coming up , and it seemed like a good time to revive my request for the perfect present : a bird of prey . |
| 11 | Justifying my needs was difficult , but with retirement looming up it seemed like a good idea . |
| 12 | The picture could be executed by a company called Scanachrome in which I already had some interest and it seemed like a good opportunity to get involved with the process . |
| 13 | She concedes , ‘ We are aware that a market for these Japanese artists does not yet exist , but it seemed like a good moment . |
| 14 | ‘ Yeah , it seemed like a good idea at the time … ’ |
| 15 | It seemed like a good option — a chance for chaos . |
| 16 | It seemed like a good argument for eliminating me . |
| 17 | ‘ Because it seemed like a good idea at the time . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It seemed like a good deal so we went down to Rufford to check the company out . |
| 19 | It looked like a good hiding-place . |
| 20 | ‘ It felt like a good career move. , |
| 21 | I remembered what he 'd told Mavis and me about the book and more than ever I thought it sounded like a good idea — the story of a man rationalizing his own lack of self-belief … |
| 22 | I thought it sounded like a good idea as it would give me a taster . |
| 23 | It sounded like a good win in the face of negative tactics . |
| 24 | But there are two other ways in which things could change drastically , making what seemed like a good idea turn very bad indeed . |
| 25 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |