Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adv] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've picked a fucking good time to pay people a visit ! ’ |
| 3 | would have presented a very good budget for |
| 4 | Personally I reckon this Mr Quinn has done a pretty good job . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , up till now , sir , he 's done a pretty good job of eluding us . ’ |
| 6 | In this case , they 've done a pretty good job , though Jeff Bridges gives the part of the kidnapper an unnecessary weirdness . |
| 7 | In this case , they 've done a pretty good job , though Jeff Bridges gives the part of the kidnapper an unnecessary weirdness . |
| 8 | I said , he 's done a pretty good job . |
| 9 | Yeah he done a real good time |
| 10 | You 're in danger of every time you 're praising that person , they 're going to be sitting back waiting for the straight away , so you could n't , if you go up to somebody and they 've generally done a superb job and you ca n't fault him , and he knows he 's done a really good job , but he 's just sitting back waiting for you to way what , what you 've done wrong . |
| 11 | You 've got some mate , do n't worry Mm , lovely bread mm , mm , mm Mum thinks the decoration it 's lovely , she said tell him you 've done a really good job , shush |
| 12 | It looks as if you 've done a very good turn to me and to a lot of other people this afternoon . |
| 13 | Which just leaves her domestic credentials to knock into shape , and now that they 're under scrutiny I realise I 've not done a very good job at all . |
| 14 | Alan Davies has done a very good job in a short space of time and if he remains as coach for three seasons or more Wales will be in with a fighting chance for the future — and certainly in the next World Cup ’ . |
| 15 | So what they had done it had a big slab there and it had got on it er The World 's Largest Slate Mine , and perhaps you 've seen it yourself they 've rubbed the T off and they put V and somebody 's done a very good job of it er in the same paint and everything . |
| 16 | Mr Hopkin expressed his opinion that we had done a very good job in our efforts , he then gave his professional advice |
| 17 | Howard Davies has done a very good job there . |
| 18 | I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ? |
| 19 | sort of track are contacting the people who done a very good job on the on the public footpath erm and that was actually going through our land , and they done some steps with erm you know erm wooden erm supports in them , er maybe in in conjunction with , was it ? |
| 20 | ’ I do not accept those criticisms.I think the conservators have done a very good job over one hundred and ten years . |
| 21 | I have just read the article in November 's Today 's Horse on gadgets by Carolyn Henderson and I would like to say that in my opinion she has done a very good job pointing out the dangers of people with their own horses who resort to gadgets to get an outline and not to time and schooling . |
| 22 | Could be ages to grow like that , now it 's grown a real good hedge , in fact no it ai n't a good real hedge it 's got massive great gaping holes in it |
| 23 | A meeting between him and Louis XIV was not a great success , but the young man made a generally good impression and though they had missed the ideal moment , when Prince Charles was threatening London from Derby , the French do seem to have been in earnest , as a letter to Prince Charles from the French Minister of Marine , the Comte de Maurepas , dated December 1745 , confirms : |
| 24 | ‘ Ah , well , I can see now , they 've made a pretty good job of it . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's made a pretty good job of spiriting off my speedboat , not to mention spiriting off my cousin . ’ |
| 26 | Not only has it made a very good profit , but getting a bit of the American ethos into the business has been a good thing as well . |
| 27 | If you make a mistake , it 's just not possible to go back and retrieve it , and for a selector to say , ‘ Well , I do n't think this person 's made a very good case , I 'm sure if we gave them another chance they would make a better one . ’ |
| 28 | However , the SAAF have made a very good proposal to DASA that they take on 6886 in about a year 's time , along with a very comprehensive spare package . |
| 29 | There are still a number of important issues to be sorted out with the Board before the Society can approve the franchising proposals , but we have made a very good start . ’ |
| 30 | Longman have made a very good start to the year and erm , and so they 've progressed from day one , making last year I expect to continue . |