Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] the good " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | On this field I found the best combination was to set the Silver Sabre at minimum discrimination and maximum sensitivity . |
| 2 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
| 3 | Here , one Friday evening I heard the best news so far . |
| 4 | He was local to the area , I think it was one of these bakers that used to used to do it but er he probably only used to do it once a week sell it once a week I think of all the people that was on course we got the best , we got the best place and er and it came out that the erm tourist information booklet . |
| 5 | he said to me one day , and I do n't remember the day he said the best thing would be for her to go on casual , then she can keep her thingy thingy . |
| 6 | Last week she had the good fortune to have as guest the great art historian Sir Ernst Gombrich . |
| 7 | Eventually , as the winter darkness descended , the fighting ceased , both sides boasting of a victory , though as Argyll re-occupied Sheriffmuir the following morning he had the better claim to have won . |
| 8 | At the end of that season he did the best thing he 'd ever done — he split with 13- times tiddler world champ and team manager Angel Nieto to create his own team with the help of glamorous wife Sylvie . |
| 9 | Before he lost his money he had the good sense to commission John Soane to design the Campden Hill Square house . |
| 10 | In the end I decided the best thing was to put you to bed and let you sleep it off . ’ |
| 11 | In the middle of a History lesson we heard the good news . |
| 12 | We we had problems because there was n't an awful lot we had the good old ones back again . |
| 13 | As to alternative sources of care he thought the better answer was the crossroads organisation rather than an nursing agency . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Morag stayed at the small , white house at different times of the year and she could never make up her mind which particular time she liked the best . |
| 17 | Is n't it time you investigated the best value in today 's yachting market for the discerning cruising family or club racer . |
| 18 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |