Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But one tried to put a good face on it and keep them to oneself . |
2 | She says : ‘ I tried to have a good marriage , be a good mother and have a career . |
3 | Second division , Swansea away in the cup was never going to be an easy ticket for Oxford , but when Nick Cusack scored with just over 10 minutes to go at the Vetch Field , United looked a good bet for the 4th round . |
4 | He 'd booked a good table at The Palace . |
5 | He 'd made a good start but now he was faltering , and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him . |
6 | As our pick-up ti me approached we mustered under our patrol commander and soon moved back to base , tired but satisfied that we 'd done a good job . |
7 | Never mind , they 'd done a good job , and I had one plot of depth and richness on our otherwise bald mountain . |
8 | And if you 'd got a good suit , you 'd take that , then fetch it out for the weekend , so they 'd looked decent , and when you took it back on Monday and he said I 'll have to drop you on that , Ah , so you wo n't this week . |
9 | He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ? |
10 | We 'd got a good relationship with the council . ’ |
11 | Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over . |
12 | I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’ |
13 | I thought we 'd got a good team . |
14 | And after I 'd explained , and we 'd laughed a good deal , and taken off each others ’ wet clothes , it was . |
15 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
16 | I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path . |
17 | The CO sat in another rain-washed tent to receive Charles 's fairly smart salute and ask him if he 'd had a good day . |
18 | Tomorrow , when she 'd had a good night 's sleep , she 'd be much better capable of dealing with him . |
19 | He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ? |
20 | that 's what I mean if they 'd had a good whistler he kept instead of her , could n't he ? |
21 | If I was a less trusting soul I 'd have said he 'd had a good lunch . |
22 | I was very pleased that you 'd had a good go at that |
23 | By now she 'd had a good look at him . |
24 | So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get . |
25 | Her father , Peter Few Brown said they 'd had a good visit . |
26 | If you 'd had a good horse , you asked for hol holiday with er , alright you 'd get it , you would n't do your horse , you know , they 'd take your horse off you . |
27 | I just hoped he 'd had a good surveyor on the job before committing himself . |
28 | He 'd had a good line going with a number of the wives out here — what man had n't ? |
29 | I 'd had a good week . |
30 | And he 'd tell me stories or sing to me , and sometimes , after he 'd had a good tumblerful of whisky , he 'd slide his hand up my shorts and stroke my thigh . |