Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The article in the Financial Times to which the hon. Gentleman referred was a good article . |
| 2 | But it 'd been a good day last year , on the Monday holiday , and they had needed two coaches you see . |
| 3 | It was just like the books said — all a man needed was a good technique . |
| 4 | All it needed was a good tug . |
| 5 | That Bingham-Jones boy had been a nuisance all day ; he was a spoiled brat ; and what he needed was a good smacking . |
| 6 | Call Me Old Fashioned , I thought was a good title , and A Licence to Print Money would have been another good title for a bestseller , but it had rather a rapacious sound do n't you think ? |
| 7 | Fishing 5lb line to a 3lb hook length I dragged in what I thought was a good chub , it turned out to be a 1 ½lb barbel ! |
| 8 | ‘ I had worked out what I thought was a good routine for him and had his personal stunt man run through the scene for him , ’ said Cannutt . |
| 9 | They put me in touch with a Fellow of the Institute by the name of John Read — same name as the pilot of DZ642 , which I thought was a good omen . |
| 10 | People were on the streets being senselessly violent to the police , which I thought was a good thing at the time . |
| 11 | The rage that had eaten at his guts for so long , and had launched him at Sergeant Lawrence — who even Jimmy knew was a good man at heart — would not serve him now . |
| 12 | His huge opponent lay defeated and bloodied , and his blood-lust was more than satisfied ; it had been a good night and it was time to go . |
| 13 | She had been a good companion ; she did not deserve this from him . |
| 14 | He had been a good nome in his way , they said . |
| 15 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ There had been a good relationship on the whole between the management and myself and it has been supportive on both sides . ’ |
| 17 | She had been a good wife , too . |
| 18 | But it had been a good day . |
| 19 | Today had been a good day . |
| 20 | He had been a good friend to her and when she walked out on her parents she had made straight for the bar , looking for him . |
| 21 | The parable concludes with Jesus making the lawyer admit that the Samaritan had been a good neighbour . |
| 22 | 1951 had been a good year for Minton . |
| 23 | Paula Kahn , chairman and chief executive of Longman Group , commented that it had been a good year for Longman ‘ despite the impact of the recession in some of our key markets around the world , particularly our ELT markets in Europe ’ . |
| 24 | It had been a good year for Kenneth personally , too . |
| 25 | In Norwich , Christmas was ‘ reasonable but not exceptional ’ for Jarrolds , according to Barbara Gaskin , but it had been a good year and will see Jarrolds 8% up on 1991 . |
| 26 | It had been a good lunch and conversation had been light and easy . |
| 27 | It was by now that and I wondered whether chilli had been a good choice for a hot meal . |
| 28 | I was forced to concede B&B had been a good idea ! |
| 29 | Lugh was not sure , now , if it had been a good idea to bring Dorrainge . |
| 30 | Bringing the Bob Marley had been a good idea , there was n't a cheaper car in the yard , it seemed , except maybe the white Vauxhall Astra with the shirt-button wheels , a car Duncan the Drunken , in a rare lucid moment , had described as a jet-propelled tennis shoe . |