Example sentences of "[pron] had be a good " in BNC.

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1 She had been a good woman .
2 She had been a good wife , too .
3 Nevertheless she had been a good , kind sister and looked after him very well .
4 She had been a good companion ; she did not deserve this from him .
5 I did n't forget Nelly who had been a good little friend to me , and eventually we did meet up again , several years later .
6 There had been a good relationship on the whole between the management and myself and it has been supportive on both sides . ’
7 There had been a good many glasses and now he signalled to Midnight who came from the shadows by the far wall , bringing a bottle of port to refill the glass held out .
8 There had been a good deal of rain , the Thames was high , and a north-westerly had piled up water at the river 's mouth , waiting for a strong flood tide to carry it up .
9 Yet the Chelsea manager , Bobby Campbell , and Arsenal assistant , Theo Foley , agreed it had been a good match , and the spectators ' complaints were muted .
10 It had been a good lunch and conversation had been light and easy .
11 Mr. O'Callaghan said it had been a good contest and the closeness in the result showed how evenly the teams were matched .
12 His huge opponent lay defeated and bloodied , and his blood-lust was more than satisfied ; it had been a good night and it was time to go .
13 It was just bad luck for the second man that it had been a good place .
14 But it had been a good day .
15 Paula Kahn , chairman and chief executive of Longman Group , commented that it had been a good year for Longman ‘ despite the impact of the recession in some of our key markets around the world , particularly our ELT markets in Europe ’ .
16 It had been a good year for Kenneth personally , too .
17 Lugh was not sure , now , if it had been a good idea to bring Dorrainge .
18 It had been a good dinner and the réserve maison had sent pleasant messages around her system , signifying that after the adventures of the day , all was now well .
19 In Norwich , Christmas was ‘ reasonable but not exceptional ’ for Jarrolds , according to Barbara Gaskin , but it had been a good year and will see Jarrolds 8% up on 1991 .
20 It had been a good joke .
21 It was a crap heap , really by the time he 'd got it , but you know , it had been a good car .
22 Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first .
23 Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’
24 He had been a good friend to her and when she walked out on her parents she had made straight for the bar , looking for him .
25 He had been a good nome in his way , they said .
26 If he had been a better negotiator , he would have closed the sale that day .
27 Said Platt : ‘ The haggling over the contract spoiled what had been a good summer for me .
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