Example sentences of "[pers pn] have the good [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I had the good fortune to work with a brilliant head of department , and paid £10 for a 1927 Austin 7 in which I drove uncertainly every day from Wimbledon . |
| 2 | My subject was French history , and although my focus was on a relatively obscure piece of ecclesiastical history I had the good fortune to work with the most genial and scholarly of humanists , Professor Alfred Cobban of the University of London . |
| 3 | Before sunrise I had the good fortune to discover that it was no longer necessary to maintain the horizontal posture , and came out on deck at two o'clock in the morning to see a noble full moon sinking westward and millions of the most brilliant stars shining overhead . |
| 4 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 5 | After interviewing Susannah ( this was back in 1980 on the set of The Awakening ) , I had the good fortune to meet and interview John Huston and I challenged him on Susannah 's story . |
| 6 | I had the good fortune to have two older sisters around the house , who basically had to do all the nasty dirty work . |
| 7 | I had the good fortune to sit between Ian Bedford , whom I have known since he was a teenager ; and David Sieff , so I never had a dull moment ! |
| 8 | Meanwhile Dr. Elliott Gabellah , acting President of the African National Council — with whom I had the good fortune to breakfast , morning after morning , at the Caux world assembly last August — is conferring with Presidents Kaunda and Nyerere in Zambia . |
| 9 | In 1957 I had the good fortune to visit the geologically exciting country of Turkey , to look at some of the local Mesozoic rocks and their faunas . |
| 10 | On 6th May — the day on which , incidentally , it actually snowed ! — I had the good fortune to play in the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major , which formed one halfofa concert in the second part of which was the first performance of Vaughan Williams ' Sancta Civitas . |
| 11 | On a recent visit to New Zealand , my wife and I had the good fortune to meet up with Alf and Muriel Newton . |
| 12 | There has been a Europeanisation of academic life over the past 20 years since I had the good luck to be appointed to Edinburgh 's Regius Chair of Public Law . |
| 13 | I am still rather surprised that I had the good sense for once in my life to follow my hunch and come and see you . |
| 14 | I had the good sense to let go of the trumpet case and try and keep rolling out of range . |
| 15 | Last week she had the good fortune to have as guest the great art historian Sir Ernst Gombrich . |
| 16 | Controversy may have raged round the royal head of Marina Ogilvy but she had the good sense to choose a dress she could wear after her baby was born |
| 17 | She had the good sense to say she did n't . |
| 18 | She was well educated ; she had the good memory we all got from her , and she really did get to know about pictures and architecture , more than most dilettantes . |
| 19 | Just because you had the good fortune to pay nothing for your very expensive university education does little to justify a system of higher education which , at the same time , excluded 85 per cent of your age group from the privileged position you evidently enjoyed . |
| 20 | A local , standing nearby , eventually intervened , saying : ‘ Now gentlemen , if only you had the good sense to ask me first . |
| 21 | ‘ One thing about you , Bunty , you have the good sense to ask a favour at the right time . |
| 22 | ‘ We had the good fortune to have fixed ropes in place all the way down but there were gusts of 100mph which literally lifted us up off our feet and threw us back down again , ’ said Harry . |
| 23 | Because of his lucrative clothing and flamboyant style of play , it was possible to be unsure of his ability as a player , but since we had the good fortune to see Andrew at Wimbledon this year , many people now know what a truly talented and exciting man he really is . |
| 24 | He intrigued us and then , when we had the good fortune to meet him socially , he emerged as both a remarkable and idealistic person . |
| 25 | Almost all our village would go — brothers , sisters , relatives and friends , arriving home every fortnight , unless we had the good fortune to be working nearby . |
| 26 | He worked as its honorary secretary until its demise in 1919 when , according to his own view in his Seventy Years among Savages ( 1921 ) , ‘ It ended as it began in its character of Forlorn Hope ; we had the good will of the free-lances , not of the public or the professors . ’ |
| 27 | We have in English a certain gamut of styles : we have the good Chaucerian ; almost the only style in English where ‘ softness ’ is tolerable ; we have the good Elizabethan ; … and the bad , or muzzy , Elizabethan ; and the Miltonic , which is a bombastic and rhetorical Elizabethan coming from an attempt to write English with Latin syntax . |
| 28 | We have in English a certain gamut of styles : we have the good Chaucerian ; almost the only style in English where ‘ softness ’ is tolerable ; we have the good Elizabethan ; … and the bad , or muzzy , Elizabethan ; and the Miltonic , which is a bombastic and rhetorical Elizabethan coming from an attempt to write English with Latin syntax . |
| 29 | Rollerskate Skinny claim they 're not songwriters , they 're ‘ almost experimentalists ’ , and they have the good grace to piss themselves laughing . |
| 30 | do not buy tropical hardwood unless it has the Good Wood Guide seal of approval — or , better still , do n't buy tropical hardwood |