Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] had good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In other words , sticking to those sectors that we know and understand and which we chose for the nineties because we believe they had good growth prospects .
2 I felt I had good cause .
3 A coupla years ago , it meant you had good contacts and you used them well .
4 Yeah , that 's what I said to him , I bet you had good fun .
5 I think they had good intentions .
6 Of the six hundred or so communicants , Baxter said he had good hopes for the sincerity of the faith of all but twelve of them .
7 The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so .
8 The bill , which makes it an offence to carry a knife and puts the onus on the carrier to prove he had good reason to carry the knife , will have its third reading on Friday and could now become law before summer after the Scottish Office accepted a Labour amendment that the act should come into force on the day it is passed rather than at the end of a two month period .
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