Example sentences of "[vb past] have [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says : ‘ I tried to have a good marriage , be a good mother and have a career . |
| 2 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tomorrow , when she 'd had a good night 's sleep , she 'd be much better capable of dealing with him . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | that 's what I mean if they 'd had a good whistler he kept instead of her , could n't he ? |
| 8 | If I was a less trusting soul I 'd have said he 'd had a good lunch . |
| 9 | I was very pleased that you 'd had a good go at that |
| 10 | By now she 'd had a good look at him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Her father , Peter Few Brown said they 'd had a good visit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I just hoped he 'd had a good surveyor on the job before committing himself . |
| 15 | He 'd had a good line going with a number of the wives out here — what man had n't ? |
| 16 | I 'd had a good week . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They 'd had a good time . |
| 19 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 20 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 21 | They were descendants of Iapyx , a son of the great Daedalus 's , who 'd had the good sense not to fly . |
| 22 | They seemed to have a good relationship , agree about most things , and never , never row — at least , not in front of the children . |
| 23 | The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause . |
| 24 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 25 | ‘ You got to have a good pair of legs and a good pair of lungs to go up there . |
| 26 | Yeah we did have a good afternoon . |
| 27 | Let Spencer help you , my dear , my youngest son always did have a good head for figures . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah he did have a good go at us through Shane . |
| 29 | In the end , I really did have a good time at College . |
| 30 | Actually I did have a good party once . |