Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his feet — as though contemptuous of all such academic preoccupations — had taken him by chance to a long , shabby street of bow-fronted houses which obviously had known better days . |
| 2 | They were desert-dwellers , so Moses could scarcely have had better preparation for the wilderness journeys with Israel than these years of nomadic life . |
| 3 | You still have to get good people in their fifties . |
| 4 | The Royalist Roman Catholic French would probably have made better conquerors of Ireland , if Ireland had to be reconquered once more . |
| 5 | She must also have had good sources of information , as she was said to know all the gossip of the village . |
| 6 | Subjects may instead simply have given good estimates of the risk which they would have felt had they been actually present in the situations . |
| 7 | Had he survived , the old chap would surely have found better ways to fritter this weekend . |