Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] a good " in BNC.
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1 | With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start . |
2 | When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start . |
3 | John could hardly have found a better influence . |
4 | 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 " . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | She knew that he did n't much care for André , but he could at least have made a better attempt at disguising it . |
7 | Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should . |