Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 2 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 3 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 4 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 5 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 6 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 7 | His Newmarket reappearance confirmed him in good order , as he travelled comfortably until left behind by those smart animals Zinaad and Apple Tree in the final furlong , beaten a neck and two lengths . |
| 8 | I enjoyed the function and my friends kept me in good cheer as I was obviously anxious about my husband being in the Gulf and did have a few too many drinks . |
| 9 | Yes , he spent money on girls , took them to good restaurants , would buy them silk-stockings too . |
| 10 | She had not yet even recognised what it was , but she knew it for better worth than she had ever yet been given . |
| 11 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 12 | Felix , who always thought of himself as a bit of a lad and an all-round popular fellow , took it in good part . |
| 13 | He introduced me to good restaurants in Paris , good food in Lugano , and good wines in New York . |
| 14 | My sister and I put him to good use . |
| 15 | We 've got it , we bought it in good faith and we 're keeping it |
| 16 | If your painting or other work of art has ever been the subject of a theft in the past then you may not now be the true owner even if you bought it in good faith ; you may be forced to hand it back to the original owner , or his heirs , depending on the relevant jurisdiction . |
| 17 | Though he greeted her in good English , he looked curiously ill at ease , his brown eyes repeatedly sliding away from hers . |
| 18 | As partners at Middlesex we tried to steal Test matches off each other when England were only playing one spinner , and it made us into better bowlers . |
| 19 | I suppose that simple precept from that old foreman stood me in good stead for thirty odd years , until now . ’ |
| 20 | As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead . |
| 21 | Burns 's poetry and songs have played an important part in my life from the earliest years , not only because of their simple beauty , but also because of their directness , honesty , and wry , lop-sided , humour ; the appreciation of which stood me in good stead the last time I was in Mauchline . |
| 22 | As I developed I became a big bloke and that stood me in good stead . |
| 23 | It was because the Communist Party fed me , that my learning stood me in good stead and I know at least this much and I live like this . |
| 24 | I was selling houses and apartments on a commission basis , and I think that my English accent stood me in good stead . |
| 25 | Yet I found that the breadth of my Scottish education stood me in good stead in the work of assessing and editing material from the whole agenda of a serious newspaper . |
| 26 | That , mixed with the mule 's contribution , produced an atmosphere in the cabin that stood me in good stead for the rest of my flying career . |
| 27 | It stood them in good stead again in 1976 when drought caused many villages to be supplied with stand pipes . |
| 28 | Whatever the case , the alliance which they had made with the family of L'Isle jourdain ( closely related to the Duèse clan ) , stood them in good stead with the Avignon papacy until John XXII 's death in 1334 . |
| 29 | The superior numbers of the Imperial army stood them in good stead : within a few minutes , Dara 's forces had broken through the rebels ' artillery and put to flight the infantry . |
| 30 | Michelin also supplied me with better tyres . ’ |