Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] in good " in BNC.
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| 1 | These shoes had stood him in good stead . |
| 2 | His loyalty had stood him in good stead after the restoration , and he was now a commissioner of police for religious conformity — a post which did not prevent him from working in any other area which Horemheb , through the king , saw fit to appoint him to . |
| 3 | The formal methods of teaching , the accent on the ‘ three Rs ’ , had stood me in good stead and in those aspects of school work I was ahead . |
| 4 | Lizzy 's butter-wouldn't-melt-in-her-mouth image had kept her in good stead the last few years , but soon she wanted to break away . |
| 5 | Browning traced the works to the collection owned jointly by Leon Levy , a New York financier , and Shelby White , who had purchased the pieces from the Ariadne Galleries in New York who , in their turn , had acquired them in good faith . |