Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | This breed can live to 14 years of age , so giving an adult a home should still promise a good few years of companionship . |
| 2 | While the kick is being executed the hands should always maintain a good , high-guard position , as a defence against a counter-strike should the kick be blocked or misdirected . |
| 3 | We must also demonstrate a good track record . |
| 4 | Candidates must also have a good career record and present a career plan that demonstrates the relevance of the DBA . |
| 5 | Candidates must also have a good career record and present a career plan that demonstrates the relevance of the DBA . |
| 6 | Those of you who are keen to learn how to fall over without hurting yourself ( usually ) should again find a good judo class ( see page 121 ) . |
| 7 | You may already have a good idea , when planning your new kitchen , of the type of operation you want , but unless you have previous experience of designing a kitchen , there could be problems in store . |
| 8 | That 's for live ; in the studio we 'll just use a good microphone in front of the f-hole ! |
| 9 | That that 's not much but if it 's if it 's I mean if it 's not padded out with waffle and drivel cos you I mean if it 's a good ti concise answer that 'll probably get a good mark . |
| 10 | Apart from a strong pair of legs you 'll also need a good dictionary to decipher the route names . |
| 11 | Now um I suppose in that context um one of the things that makes this perhaps rather difficult to understand is the way in which y'know kind of when you look at children playing , when you talk to children , they 'll often express a good deal of curiosity about sexuality um both to each-other and to adults . |
| 12 | Looked as though she might well make a good Vicar 's wife . ’ |
| 13 | might well enjoy a good rubdown and a massage . |
| 14 | It might otherwise cost a good deal of money to do this . |
| 15 | It wo n't buy the rest of your life , but it 'll certainly fund a good time . |
| 16 | I suggested that he might like to go and have a talk with his crew , I did not want to send him back to his squadron , but with a new navigator I believed he could eventually forge a good Pathfinding crew . |
| 17 | They had four children and not much income and in those days believed like the rest of the middle class that they could only find a good education for their boy at an independent fee-paying school . |
| 18 | Mr Grey 's enthusiasm and energy for the entrepreneurial challenge was contagious , but one could nevertheless feel a good few heels digging in among the bookselling purists at the idea of running a hairdresser . |
| 19 | But from a dis if I could just get a good you know one of these really warm days . |
| 20 | Erm wi if you had the accommodation of both houses downstairs , you 'd have you 'd easily have a good size sitting room . |
| 21 | Already in November 1941 , the SD was reporting ‘ disappointment that the final smashing of Bolshevism is not taking place as rapidly as hoped and that no end of the eastern campaign is in sight ’ , a dampening of optimism at the news of the first falls of snow and the feeling that further advancement might be extremely difficult , puzzlement at the failure to advance further when the Russian troops were allegedly so poor and so badly equipped , concern at the reports of continued tough resistance of the Soviet army , and pessimism that ‘ the way to the Urals was still a long one , and the partisan war could still last a good while ’ . |
| 22 | Oh hell , she said to herself and glared morosely at the scene before her , wondering why it was that while , in grief , she could still enjoy a good book or , say , a well-grilled sole , she could take no pleasure in a beautiful landscape . |
| 23 | ‘ All this type of modern music that we play , if you think back to when it all started , whether it 's thrash , rap , disco , rock'n'roll , it all started with black people in slavery and poverty in the southern States , and about the only thing they could ever have a good time with was sex . |
| 24 | If the translator wishes to maintain this thematic organization and , at the same time , adhere to an obligatory order of subject + verb in the target language , nominalization could probably provide a good strategy in many contexts . |
| 25 | I was I was looking at the syllabus last night and I was working out how much we 've got to do yet and where we are an and I really do feel confident that no matter where you are in your course work situation , that if w if we planned the thing right and we sort it out between now and the summer , tha that we could well get a good few Grade A's in here and obviously work it well . |
| 26 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
| 27 | They could therefore claim a good deal of genuine popular backing ; and their power , or at least their powers of obstruction , survived almost as long as the monarchy itself . |
| 28 | The tape-recording may also preserve a good deal that may be extraneous to the text — coughing , chairs creaking , buses going past , the scratch of a match lighting a cigarette . |
| 29 | He may even make a good appearance of doing so . |
| 30 | Or they may even spend a good sum of money on refurbishing a suite of rooms with no apparent requirement of reward other than perhaps the naming of the rooms in acknowledgement . |