Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tranmere wasted a good deal of splendid midfield work in the first half with long-range speculative shots into the stand . |
| 2 | Of course , a well-trained Labrador made a good retriever . |
| 3 | His brother William made a good deputy in most respects and could deal with much of the day-to-day management of the properties ; but he was very much a stay-at-home character , immersed in his books and studies , and the more distant affairs tended to get neglected . |
| 4 | His dark hair and eyes made a good foil for Breeze , whose skin was very fair , and whose short brown curls gleamed like raw silk in the strong morning sunshine . |
| 5 | The lawyer made a good reply . |
| 6 | No ; it was the romance of the whole thing that was getting to her ; after all , it was n't every day you were whisked away on a white charger … well , a modern car made a good substitute . |
| 7 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 8 | The Emperor Napoleon got a good deal because France would have had to give it up sooner or later anyway , and I got a good deal because Louisiana gave me a lovely companion for life with all the legendary charms of your people . " |
| 9 | Elgin became a good example of the reaction to Johnson in Scotland . |
| 10 | I would add that toy manufacturers used a good deal of imagination and licence when they produced their models , perhaps not taking into account the keen eye and future criticism of FlyPast readers ! |
| 11 | Kardamíli seemed a good base , since the author himself writes of it with such affection . |
| 12 | Creed received a good deal of spin-off publicity . |
| 13 | This study attracted a good deal of interest and replication ( Blacksell and Gilg , 1975 ) and in a massive appraisal of the approach ( Robinson et al . , |
| 14 | Experiments with exogenous compounds showed a good correlation between amounts added and amounts measured . |
| 15 | Dyble added the conversion and another big victory looked on the cards , but Basingstoke showed a good deal of spirit in the final half-hour . |
| 16 | I think he and David enjoyed a good debate , and there was always an element of that . |
| 17 | Manville took a good gulp and appraised his superior over the rim of the glass . |
| 18 | ‘ Our tail-enders did a good job to get us to 394 . |
| 19 | ah , it was alright , er , it was a bit , David did a good performance , erm , and there was this boy in the first year , and he was apparently been turned down by Lambda Do you know who Lambda are , I do n't even know who they are . |
| 20 | However , it was not all one-sided and Hammer gave a good account of themselves in the first half , restricting Haslemere to one goal and going close themselves with long-range shots . |
| 21 | The Association had a good press . |
| 22 | Well before the revolution , Valentin Ceauşescu had a good reputation among Romanians — unlike his younger brother and sister . |
| 23 | At least the club had a good jazz band , and a first-class cabaret . |
| 24 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 25 | As he pocketed it he said , with studied casualness , that the pub terrace had a good view of the river . |
| 26 | Utilities had a good day , with electricity generators to the fore , but aerospace was the worst-performing sector of the day , led down by Smiths Industries on Eurofighter worries . |
| 27 | They received the news silently , unwilling to concede that Woolley had a good reason for doing anything . |
| 28 | In no time at all Travis had a good fire going , and the heat from it drew her to her knees beside it , hands held out to the warmth . |
| 29 | Anyway at least all our lads had a good rest this last two weeks , so it 'll be up and at 'em on Saturday . |
| 30 | From the gateway of the quarry Grimma had a good view of the road all the way to the airport . |