Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I believe someone somewhere has got a good idea . |
| 2 | Because it is an interlocutory judgement it is usually heard before a master of the High Court , and a defendant only has to show a good arguable case for the plaintiff 's application to fail . |
| 3 | If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it . |
| 4 | With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start . |
| 5 | When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start . |
| 6 | John could hardly have found a better influence . |
| 7 | Given firm instructions the dismissed minister would probably have made a better reformer than his successor , S. S. Lanskoi , who in August 1855 " proclaimed the rights of the nobility to be inviolable " . |
| 8 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
| 9 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |
| 10 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ said Loretta , grateful that her unpremeditated action the day before had made a good impression on Veronica . |
| 11 | ‘ Brian particularly has had a good run in the reserves , but I 'm sure they 'll both do well . ’ |
| 12 | From my point of view , one of the most powerful arguments that needs to be addressed is the argument about individual freedom and this is always important to me about , if you 're going to take an action that limits somebody 's freedom , you damn well have to have a good reason for it . |
| 13 | She knew that he did n't much care for André , but he could at least have made a better attempt at disguising it . |
| 14 | Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should . |
| 15 | He does not seem to have liked the personal and domestic habits of his former parishioners and also says " a dislike to continuous work prevails extensively among the working class " and " persons who live temporately have attained a good old age . " |
| 16 | He does not seem to have liked the personal and domestic habits of his former parishioners and also says " a dislike to continuous work prevails extensively among the working class " and " persons who live temporately have attained a good old age . " |