Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have a good " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well — if you 'll excuse me I 'll go to my room , where I have a good book .
2 Your plugger should contact all the DJs with whom he or she has a good relationship , trying to persuade them to play your record .
3 courses in turn , tended to select for observation those schools where they had a good relationship with the drama specialist .
4 He was saying that I had a better disguise than he did .
5 He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office .
6 I can remember my grandfather , in the 1940s , telling me that I had a good bump of location .
7 The presence of all these species also meant that I had a good chance of spotting the birds that preyed on them .
8 I will always maintain that I had a good time in service , and from what I heard there were n't many bad places in the Teesdale area — just the odd one here and there .
9 It was fortunate that I had a good friend of my own age , also called Wanda : we relished being gloomy together .
10 The only difference between now and the World Cup is that I have a better suntan .
11 Erm , for instance , suppose that I think that one of the things that er makes me who I am is erm that I have a good head for numbers .
12 The problem I 've got is is er I know what I want to do and you told me what are doing , so from that I have a good picture of what how I should approach it .
13 It could now become evident that she had a good figure .
14 The prize for the winner , was to share her next dinner , and ensure that she had a good time .
15 The first essential is to see that she has a good solicitor to advise her and sort out her husband 's affairs , making sure beforehand what his fee will be for the work he is going to do for her .
16 You should also make certain that she has a good tin-opener which she can use without difficulty .
17 I am convinced that she has a good intelligence , and understands what is proposed as treatment .
18 I hope you are well , and that you had a good journey home .
19 ‘ If I told you that you had a good many things I am interested in ? ’
20 This er , your comment that you had a good look at the figures , severely confused the merchant bankers who are advising the Mirror group as they , they did n't feel that they 'd finalized the figures themselves .
21 the sad news for golfers is that you 've a better chance of watching the sport than playing it at the Oxfordshire club … membership is being limited to 750 and the joining fee is twenty five thousand pounds …
22 You said that you have a good job — does n't it bring you into contact with all sorts ?
23 Make sure you read the instruction carefully and only begin when you are satisfied that you have a good understanding of what is needed .
24 But if you 're going to talk about countries like Turkey , for example , one of the provisions about membership is that there is no dispute as to boundaries , that there are no conflicts on your border , that you have a good humans right re human rights record .
25 My parents , like thousands of other black people , had scrimped and scraped and saved for years to ensure that we had a better life .
26 Nobody could claim that we have a good record of producing players , so the more debate and discussion we can engender , the better .
27 " On second thoughts , Hazel remembers that we have a good story-teller among us .
28 I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know .
29 Now that we have a better understanding of the flight envelope it is time to explored Take the kite straight up , pull to make a 180-degree turn and you 've turned the kite nose-down into vertical dive .
30 In my retelling of the Divine Drama I have made use of primitive mythological ways of speaking because I do not believe that we have a better language that is available to us when it comes to understanding God 's revelation as story — as the great epic of salvation .
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