Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |
| 2 | Write your answer on a postcard and send it to Good Food Competition , TODAY Features , 1 Virginia Street , London E1 9BS , to arrive by Monday November 9 . |
| 3 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 4 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 5 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 6 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 7 | I believed I put them to good use against Pakistan . |
| 8 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 9 | With characteristic business acumen , the Swiss spas saw the renaissance of the classical water therapy on the way , beckoning all sections of society , and they have turned it to good account . |
| 10 | Mike Woodhead studied soil-science in Holland and put it to good use when he purchased his wine estate . |
| 11 | The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery . |
| 12 | She had a strong sense of the dramatic , and could use it to good effect when occasion demanded . |
| 13 | The trouble is we never stop long enough to put them to good use . |
| 14 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 16 | He would take her to good restaurants . |
| 17 | His sister invariably had the power to restore him to good humour . |
| 18 | However , it will take several hundred pounds in vet bills to restore him to good health . |
| 19 | Yes , he spent money on girls , took them to good restaurants , would buy them silk-stockings too . |
| 20 | Architectural historians have already raided it to good effect , notably Mark Girouard for his book on the sixteenth-century architect Robert Smythson and Jill Lever , the curator of the collection , for the book she wrote with Margaret Richardson , The Art of the Architect . |
| 21 | A Department of the Environment report on the condition of local authority housing in 1985 said that in England alone almost £19 billion needed to be spent to restore it to good condition . |
| 22 | Then you can concentrate on using it to good effect . |
| 23 | But in today 's lean property market , homebuyers could start putting them to good use . |
| 24 | Response has been excellent and we are putting them to good use — please keep them coming ! |
| 25 | He introduced me to good restaurants in Paris , good food in Lugano , and good wines in New York . |
| 26 | My sister and I put him to good use . |
| 27 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |
| 28 | Wombles are fictitious animals from a TV series noted for their cleanliness , and for cleaning up litter and putting it to good use . |
| 29 | " See you put it to good use . " |
| 30 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |