Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Then he left , wishing Riven a good night , and a better morning .
2 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 .
3 Act returned , having done a good time , but not quite good enough , and he knew it .
4 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 .
5 Most corporate buyers we spoke to agreed that B A's doing deals much like those from other airlines , indeed Merrel-Lynch said they 'd just dropped B A having got a better deal elsewhere .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper .
9 Having used a good CAVOK day absorbing its contents , I ca n't wait for the chance to get out and put some of Harvey Plourde 's theories to the test in my Champ — Bob Grimstead .
10 BP is regarded by many in the industry as having gained the best award of all the foreign oil companies , confirmed by approaches from competitors who are , says Ritson , ‘ offering to collaborate ’ .
11 Paul tells the Ephesians that having heard the word of truth and having believed the good news of salvation , they are ‘ in Christ ’ and have been sealed with the Holy Spirit who was promised long ago ( 1:13 , cf. 2 Cor. 2:21 ) .
12 Having fought the good fight with anti-poll tax benefits , and the recent back-to-roots tour of London 's teething ground pubs , it 's out now on another lengthy tour of all those places that you always see in the gig guides and wonder what they 're like , paradoxically to promote a single called ‘ Air Conditioned ’ , which these places rarely seem to be .
13 Having fought the good fight with anti-poll tax benefits , and the recent back-to-roots tour of London 's teething ground pubs , it 's out now on another lengthy tour of all those places that you always see in the gig guides and wonder what they 're like , paradoxically to promote a single called ‘ Air Conditioned ’ , which these places rarely seem to be .
14 What Council was trying to recognise in shifting resources from information to training was that , having achieved a good product , additional fine tuning of the information system no longer need be a priority .
15 It is , of course , rendered suspect simply because the writers connected with the tradition appear to be guilty of having ignored the best evidence concerning Abdulkerim and Molla Arab and because , in order to remain consistent , they must therefore necessarily extend the Muftilik of Molla Husrev to cover the period in the reign of Mehmed II from which the Muftilik of Abdulkerim appears to have been removed .
16 Having established a good shoulder-in , Jennie asked for the movement without the help of the circle beforehand .
17 Having established a good working relationship with classes the new teacher may well be able to adopt a freer design with confidence .
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