Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been dying to make a good ginger pudding for years ! |
| 2 | The minister is going to miss a good match . ’ |
| 3 | During their years in London together Ianthe and her mother had not attached themselves to one church , Mrs Broome liking to hear a good preacher and fine music . |
| 4 | Both Seve and Irwin played badly in the third round , but you 're never going to do a good score at Lytham when it feels like three degrees below freezing and there 's a gale blowing , are you ? |
| 5 | The answer to that will depend on their own performance , because persuading the other investors to part with a further 12 per cent of their equity will only be possible if they are going to get a good return on it . |
| 6 | And he took me home , er he gave me a good talking to , and tell me dad , cos me , I nearly , I got a good hiding , was going to get a good hiding from me dad , until this policeman says , do n't worry , he says er , you wo n't hear anything about it . |
| 7 | We 're not going to get a good preacher . |
| 8 | Mr Heseltine , seen by many Tory faithful as Margaret Thatcher 's assassin , was never going to get a good reception in his first post-coup party speech . |
| 9 | ‘ Still , looks like we 're going to get a good Summer . ’ |
| 10 | The simplest form of analogy is to change the historical setting for the event , for instance , attempting to place The Good Samaritan in a contemporary setting , or doing the reverse of this — taking some contemporary problem such as racism and setting it in past times , in a context between , say , the Jews and the Samaritans or the Greeks and the Romans . |
| 11 | So then it 's just a matter of waiting to get a good take , and if you do n't do it by take three , you do n't have any business doing it . |
| 12 | Oh yes yeah outside yes and old programmes they sell at away matches , badges , season tickets as you might understand , but they , they are going to have a good day in April on the centenary day because they have it getting all the old players Tony says he , he 's been invited to attend as well and Gilbert I believe will be going and erm |
| 13 | And they 're going to have a good look and you may need to do all sorts of interesting things , okay . |
| 14 | I think that it is going to have a good effect on improving trading for the better parks and attractions in this country and as you know I think , Alton Towers is the leading er , park of its kind in this country , Chessington which we also own is the second er , leading park , one and a half million visitors a year , Alton Towers approximately two million visitors a year in this country . |
| 15 | we 're not going to play golf , we 're going to have a good time . |
| 16 | And tonight he was going to have a good time . |
| 17 | I 'm going to have a good time , she told herself firmly when she heard André 's knock on the door . |
| 18 | Whatever , Yeb walks past grabbing my arm and tells me we 're going to have a good time . |
| 19 | These differences led to differing perceptions of their role by the two development officers — in Ipswich the development officer was a little unsure of how she was going to ‘ work in with the existing multi-disciplinary team ’ , whereas in Newham the development officer said she felt she was probably going to spend a good deal of her time negotiating between the different services and ‘ getting them to talk to each other ’ . |
| 20 | To do that you 're going to need the good will of the workers within the centre , the local community , the workers within Moat and the different factions within Moat and the one thing that the Tory line did was to unite all those factions against what the county council wanted . |
| 21 | It was all going to take a good deal of sorting out . |
| 22 | I , like so many others , turned up at ‘ Little Dublin ’ last week expecting to see a good game between the Crues and the Super Whites , but there were groans all round when ‘ Mister Carryduff ’ ran on to officiate . |
| 23 | Then he left , wishing Riven a good night , and a better morning . |
| 24 | I 'll make sure May and June top up , because I 'm expecting to have a bad month in July , but because I 'm expecting to have a good month , I might as well go on holiday myself . |
| 25 | No politician , whether a great magnate intent on retaining a traditional dominance in his region , a minister of the crown seeking favourable returns for his administration , or a landowner merely wishing to make a good figure in his own county , could manage without access to patronage with which to reward his friends ' loyalty by helping them in their times of need . |
| 26 | Having located a good root of title , you then need to form a chain of title from the date of that document right up to the present time . |
| 27 | Act returned , having done a good time , but not quite good enough , and he knew it . |
| 28 | They want to be effective in helping children to learn and develop , and they want to be able to feel pleasure in doing so , and pleased with themselves ( though often they find this a not-quite-nice thing to admit to ) for having done a good job . |
| 29 | Now that 's partly due to having got a good result and performance , but more so because of the feeling of togetherness we now have in the squad . |
| 30 | That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months . |