Example sentences of "[vb past] was [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The article in the Financial Times to which the hon. Gentleman referred was a good article . |
| 2 | It 's what I decided was the best idea all round . |
| 3 | It was just like the books said — all a man needed was a good technique . |
| 4 | All it needed was a good tug . |
| 5 | That Bingham-Jones boy had been a nuisance all day ; he was a spoiled brat ; and what he needed was a good smacking . |
| 6 | Call Me Old Fashioned , I thought was a good title , and A Licence to Print Money would have been another good title for a bestseller , but it had rather a rapacious sound do n't you think ? |
| 7 | Fishing 5lb line to a 3lb hook length I dragged in what I thought was a good chub , it turned out to be a 1 ½lb barbel ! |
| 8 | ‘ I had worked out what I thought was a good routine for him and had his personal stunt man run through the scene for him , ’ said Cannutt . |
| 9 | They put me in touch with a Fellow of the Institute by the name of John Read — same name as the pilot of DZ642 , which I thought was a good omen . |
| 10 | People were on the streets being senselessly violent to the police , which I thought was a good thing at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure whoever was responsible at the time acted in what they thought was the best interests of the council . ’ |
| 12 | so then the very time he went in I you know , took did n't say anything at all I thought was the best thing . |
| 13 | That he could get all these to find out what he thought was the best policy in in your |
| 14 | It was n't that the song had a particular relevance — it was n't about AIDS — but it was a song that I felt was the best way of expressing myself and also the best thing I had to offer at the time . |
| 15 | He made clear on 27 November what he felt was the best action for him to take in his capacity as a Law Officer . |
| 16 | Lucille had left France because she loved Sharpe , whom she knew was a better man than he thought himself to be . |
| 17 | The rage that had eaten at his guts for so long , and had launched him at Sergeant Lawrence — who even Jimmy knew was a good man at heart — would not serve him now . |
| 18 | It should be stated , however , that what the carers actually said was a good deal more complex than a simple preference for institutional care . |
| 19 | What the public wanted was a good rail service and not surprisingly successive generations of British Rail managers put their major effort into achieving that . |