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 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 .
11 Felix , who always thought of himself as a bit of a lad and an all-round popular fellow , took it in good part .
12 He introduced me to good restaurants in Paris , good food in Lugano , and good wines in New York .
13 My sister and I put him to good use .
14 We 've got it , we bought it in good faith and we 're keeping it
15 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 .
16 Though he greeted her in good English , he looked curiously ill at ease , his brown eyes repeatedly sliding away from hers .
17 I suppose that simple precept from that old foreman stood me in good stead for thirty odd years , until now . ’
18 As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead .
19 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 .
20 As I developed I became a big bloke and that stood me in good stead .
21 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 .
22 I was selling houses and apartments on a commission basis , and I think that my English accent stood me in good stead .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 It stood them in good stead again in 1976 when drought caused many villages to be supplied with stand pipes .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Despite his lack of political experience , Clouthier 's 20-year leadership of business organisations stood him in good stead .
29 Sartorial details aside , such efforts stood him in good stead with Disney .
30 The grounding Mr Morrison received at James Dowling 's feet stood him in good stead .
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