Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carson liked her because she seemed to display the ideal mix of warmth and distance that made a good neighbour . |
| 2 | He was accustomed to it from his schooldays since his was n't a memory system that made a good impression on harassed teachers or impatient examiners , especially as it did n't work at all with books . |
| 3 | Then there was a big show of Miró in New York in the late Sixties that got a good review in what was then called The Herald Tribune . |
| 4 | Just trying to put some of those questions to the man was turning the whole ill-fated interview into a monster that dominated a good deal of her thinking . |
| 5 | He was able to tolerate this because he did have a kind of ultimate theological perspective of his own : in a style that owed a good deal to Hegel , he believed that all history is a movement of the spirit which is on the way to a return to God , and will at the last find its home in God . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll admit you had cause for complaint when we used charcoal that needed a good layer of white ash before we could start cooking . |
| 7 | The central London postmark did n't give any clues , nor did the good quality envelope . |
| 8 | Louis 's age — he was sixty in 838 — made it urgent to find a succession-settlement that had a good chance of sticking . |
| 9 | The more I read , the more I became determined to try to produce something that had a good basis in theory , but that was pungent enough to counter the bland unsupported generalisations that seem so prevalent in the more practical end of the library and information science literature . |
| 10 | Though not a homosexual , he mixed easily with gays , laughed readily at Minton 's jokes and made a good audience . |
| 11 | Apparently this old man , John Raven lived in a shack beside the stone and made a good living out of selling a paper he had had printed , which gave the size , weight and origin of the stone . |
| 12 | The six cylinder engine is 6 inches longer than a four cylinder and will not fit a 4 cylinder chassis without a great deal of modification , but a 6 cylinder , 3-litre car engine will fit a 6 cylinder Land Rover and made a good conversion . |
| 13 | Ireland , on the other hand , again reported an improvement and produced a good underwriting profit for the year . |
| 14 | Ireland continued to improve and produced a good profit . |
| 15 | The Auto account , which was affected by adverse weather in the first quarter , is now benefiting from successful rating action and produced a good result at the half year . |
| 16 | Luckily , my after-match tantrum in the dressing room certainly shook up my rabble and got a good performance against Frampton . |
| 17 | Well , Bilborough , my mother lives at Bilborough , I thought it 'd be nice to be near her , my dad lives up Sherwood , and I used to , I used to live up Sherwood , it 's a good place and got a good school . |
| 18 | Ian Snodin — We nver saw the best of him and got a good price . |
| 19 | ‘ So did I , dear boy , so did I , ’ said the star lugubriously , and got a good laugh from the cast . |
| 20 | I mean , we 'd used other drugs and got a good hit and we just wanted to try smack to see what it was like . |
| 21 | They were up against a side encouraged by a large , partisan crowd but kept their discipline and got a good result . |
| 22 | I reached round and got a good handful of his arse . |
| 23 | The post was very interesting and involved a good blend of research , teaching and clinical work . |
| 24 | I succeeded almost immediately and found a good alignment of moats ending at Gill 's Lap pine clump on Ashdown Forest , one of the marks noted by Tony Wedd . |
| 25 | In the old large hospitals it was sometimes difficult to detect the strong mutual , informal relationships which developed amongst patients and provided a good deal of support , and , unfortunately , often little account was taken of these relationships when patients were moved from the hospitals into the community . |
| 26 | A study of the health , education , and home environment of the children was published in 1972 , and attracted a good deal of attention : From Birth to Seven by R. Davie and his colleagues ( see also Fogelman 1983 ) . |
| 27 | De Gaulle himself had proposed a merger in December ( and received a good press in the US and Britain for having done so ) . |
| 28 | A number of British and American dealers were doing so , and the Italian trade is known to have bought and underbid a good amount in the Christie 's sale , including ‘ Natura morta ’ by Morandi at $270,000 ( £180,000 ) . |
| 29 | I was told that before she got married and gone into farming she lived with a great-aunt and enjoyed a good meal every day . |
| 30 | He took great pleasure from visiting their caravan at Loch Eck , near Dunoon , and enjoyed a good game of golf . |