Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb base] [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fighting , he says , is ‘ the real , highest , honestest business of every son of man ’ and he advises ‘ those young persons whose stomachs are not strong , or who think a good set-to with the weapons which God has given to us all , an uncivilized , unchristian , or ungentlemanly affair , just skip this chapter at once , for it wo n't be to their taste ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ It may be age , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm rather drawn to adversity and I like a good wash-out ; but nothing happens here except a steady loss of money . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm working on instinct , ’ he said thickly , ‘ but I 'm a fast learner , and I 've a good enough idea how to keep you in line . |
| 4 | " A good builder will be perfectly adequate , " Sara said , " and I know a good one in the town . |
| 5 | Sir , I , and I suspect a good number of other readers , was surprised to read some of the comments in your feature on page one of the issue dated 20 September relating to the GCR Gala Weekend of 14/15 September . |
| 6 | Zoe describes herself as ‘ a chameleon ’ ‘ I do what I like and I have a good time doing it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So I just see myself passing through and meeting all these people along the way , like , and I have a good time . |
| 8 | ‘ At my age you do n't need much sleep by night , and I spend a good deal of time sitting by the bedroom window , smoking my pipe and watching the sea … |
| 9 | To my mind the acquiring and delivering of the wrappers was certainly part of the consideration in these cases , and I see no good reason for drawing a distinction between these and other cases . |
| 10 | ‘ Come on , Raff , ’ she told the ginger kitten , ‘ it 's just you and me now your brothers have found good homes , and you make a good hot-water bottle . ’ |
| 11 | There are no fees , and you collect a good rate of interest on the balance ; but you ca n't raise an overdraft . |
| 12 | There should not be too much uprooting , and you have a good chance of breeding as long as you do not overcrowd . |
| 13 | Sit it beside Donald Bennet and Bill Wallace 's Ski Mountaineering in Scotland guide and you have a good guide for every ski touring eventuality . |
| 14 | And you have a good right to be … because … ’ |
| 15 | Multiply me several times and you have a good idea of the sort of coverage this author of PN 's Trivial Pursuits column and Harvey Porlock of the Sunday Times will get . |
| 16 | ‘ Your Myra sounds very capable ; she said you were ahead with your designing and you have a good stock . |
| 17 | ‘ And you have a good nephew , Yussuf . |
| 18 | Quite recently the Environmental Department has become semi-autonomous with Russell Jones as its Chief Environmental Health Officer and we know the good work which Russell has done over the years . |
| 19 | Assuming for the moment we have reached an organizational utopia , and we have a good strategy , driven by a charismatic leader , within a framework that is encouraging , there still remain further thorny problems of implementation . |
| 20 | In many parts of the world there are big restrictions on the way we trade , but the industry here has not been preventing from growing and we have a good environment in which to do business . |
| 21 | ‘ We know how your leaks happened and we have a good idea where the information ends up . |
| 22 | Erm we feel that er in that circumstance the proposals should be retrospective erm and we find the Good Committees er comment on this singularly unhelpful , in that all they say is we do not accept that retrospective implementation of the compensation scheme is appropriate full stop . |
| 23 | Well the trouble is we go over there and we buy a good buy |
| 24 | Whether they are in a particular building in one place or another , actually I could n't give a monkey 's as a parent , and I do n't care where the school is as long as I can get my kids there and they get a good deal . |
| 25 | At outcrop the sandstones are visibly porous and they provide a good aquifer in the Belfast region . |
| 26 | In order to accustom dogs for these events , there are usually classes for novices or puppies , and they provide a good basic training for bigger events . |
| 27 | Now we travelled the best part of the Ukraine and we also dipped into and er we were there about a month , just under a month , and erm one of the impressions that I got there , just as an ordinary chap , no , not learned politically so I ca n't speak on the level er of most of your callers today , but er , I realise that here you had er people , in actual fact my my comment was the country 's half finished , everywhere you went there were building constructions so far incomplete , er projects underway and you 've got the impression that they did need communism in a way to make the thing work er , the er , let's take the Ukrainians , I mean that , that 's where the Cossacks come from and they love a good time , er those sort of people in a way need a strong government . |
| 28 | It 's only a hop and a skip from the Viaduct , and they have a good selection of the latest fashions . ’ |
| 29 | What I was trying to say that the for the fire fighter decision about was very boo 'd upon to the professional advice of our Chief Fire Officers and they have a good for eighteen months of how we are doing this fire fighting in Hertfordshire . |
| 30 | Rollerskate Skinny claim they 're not songwriters , they 're ‘ almost experimentalists ’ , and they have the good grace to piss themselves laughing . |