Example sentences of "[vb past] been a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 'd been a good day last year , on the Monday holiday , and they had needed two coaches you see . |
| 2 | His huge opponent lay defeated and bloodied , and his blood-lust was more than satisfied ; it had been a good night and it was time to go . |
| 3 | She had been a good companion ; she did not deserve this from him . |
| 4 | He had been a good nome in his way , they said . |
| 5 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ There had been a good relationship on the whole between the management and myself and it has been supportive on both sides . ’ |
| 7 | She had been a good wife , too . |
| 8 | But it had been a good day . |
| 9 | Today had been a good day . |
| 10 | He had been a good friend to her and when she walked out on her parents she had made straight for the bar , looking for him . |
| 11 | The parable concludes with Jesus making the lawyer admit that the Samaritan had been a good neighbour . |
| 12 | 1951 had been a good year for Minton . |
| 13 | Paula Kahn , chairman and chief executive of Longman Group , commented that it had been a good year for Longman ‘ despite the impact of the recession in some of our key markets around the world , particularly our ELT markets in Europe ’ . |
| 14 | It had been a good year for Kenneth personally , too . |
| 15 | In Norwich , Christmas was ‘ reasonable but not exceptional ’ for Jarrolds , according to Barbara Gaskin , but it had been a good year and will see Jarrolds 8% up on 1991 . |
| 16 | It had been a good lunch and conversation had been light and easy . |
| 17 | It was by now that and I wondered whether chilli had been a good choice for a hot meal . |
| 18 | I was forced to concede B&B had been a good idea ! |
| 19 | Lugh was not sure , now , if it had been a good idea to bring Dorrainge . |
| 20 | Bringing the Bob Marley had been a good idea , there was n't a cheaper car in the yard , it seemed , except maybe the white Vauxhall Astra with the shirt-button wheels , a car Duncan the Drunken , in a rare lucid moment , had described as a jet-propelled tennis shoe . |
| 21 | Said Platt : ‘ The haggling over the contract spoiled what had been a good summer for me . |
| 22 | There had been a good deal of rain , the Thames was high , and a north-westerly had piled up water at the river 's mouth , waiting for a strong flood tide to carry it up . |
| 23 | In retrospect he said that he felt that the review had been a good thing for the department . |
| 24 | Michael , God love him , had been a good son in many ways . |
| 25 | Yet the Chelsea manager , Bobby Campbell , and Arsenal assistant , Theo Foley , agreed it had been a good match , and the spectators ' complaints were muted . |
| 26 | It was just bad luck for the second man that it had been a good place . |
| 27 | It had been a good joke . |
| 28 | Mr. O'Callaghan said it had been a good contest and the closeness in the result showed how evenly the teams were matched . |
| 29 | It had been a good dinner and the réserve maison had sent pleasant messages around her system , signifying that after the adventures of the day , all was now well . |
| 30 | She had been a good woman . |