Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had not yet even recognised what it was , but she knew it for better worth than she had ever yet been given . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Felix , who always thought of himself as a bit of a lad and an all-round popular fellow , took it in good part . |
| 9 | We 've got it , we bought it in good faith and we 're keeping it |
| 10 | 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 . |