Example sentences of "[vb past] a good [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest in the nature of society was not lacking in the sixteenth century , and in one way or another commentators found a good deal to say about it . |
| 2 | It seemed a good idea to see what it was she was defending with such tenacity . |
| 3 | I designed the itinerary , of course , for high political resonance , but it seemed a good idea to take in beautiful towns and routes . |
| 4 | In fact , there was no chance of losing her job , but sooner or later she would have to go and it seemed a good idea to lay down a time now . |
| 5 | It seemed a good idea to pin her thoughts elsewhere . |
| 6 | It seemed a good idea to have a companion when I knew I had to face a Spanish maniac ! ’ |
| 7 | It 's my job to keep a check on the stock and it seemed a good chance to get something done … ’ |
| 8 | It seemed a good place to defend ourselves against Silver and his men , because we were sure they would kill us when they returned to the ship . |
| 9 | I pulled in there as it seemed a good place to get Armstrong off the road and it was only then I saw that it was in fact an unmade road curving away round the back of the hill . |
| 10 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 11 | The most frightening is rainforest destruction , and being a carpenter and joiner by trade anyway I have used many threatened species in my past and it seemed a good thing to start with . |
| 12 | It seemed a good time to make my excuses and leave , and I did both . ’ |
| 13 | Wattana had beaten Parrott in four major events this season and he seemed a good bet to improve this record when he established a 2–0 lead . |
| 14 | Mr Hunt made a good effort to attract business to the state , but his political reforms floundered . |
| 15 | the , boring , unimaginative anybody else got a good word to start |
| 16 | McFarlane once discovered a good way to kill curiosity , like the cat . |
| 17 | It would take his coach at least two hours to reach Brussels , and he needed a good hour to change into the scarlet and gold finery of a British major-general . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew I needed a good right to win . |
| 19 | That 's why I was promoted : they needed a good engineer to put in the technology . ’ |
| 20 | And we thought a good place to get Rice Crispies at Kwiksave |
| 21 | We chose a good day to go as it was their pre-Christmas trip and we were served cake and liqueur ! |
| 22 | He chose a good day to raise the matter , because only yesterday the hospital opened a new out-patients department . |
| 23 | But Peter Browning 's dismissal after 22 minutes changed all that and Cranleigh , having drawn level by half-time , looked a good bet to record a shock victory over the Dan Air leaders . |
| 24 | Only one team has beaten Rovers at home and for some time Swindon looked a good bet to become the second . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ The conditions were difficult for everyone and we took a good decision to wait until the last half-hour before doing our 12 laps . |
| 26 | His failure to gain much of Bavaria in 1778–79 , to exchange the whole electorate for the Austrian Netherlands some years later ( see pp. 303–5 below ) , or to achieve real military success against the Turks in the war of 1788–90 , undoubtedly did a good deal to increase the difficulties he faced within his own dominions . |
| 27 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 28 | ‘ Our tail-enders did a good job to get us to 394 . |
| 29 | He convinced himself that speaking Italian to Franco presented a good opportunity to learn and therefore he should take up the challenge . |
| 30 | And when my father spoke about He got a holi they got a holiday from the school , that day , because the teacher came to see this old body going out the glen that 's body and they walked out , so it 'd be two miles out and then maybe another three miles up the er Glen Shee kirk here , so they had a good bit to carry him . |