Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we deal with a wide range of different groups , and erm we 've got to produce a best advice list , and er we try to find you the best contract available in the market . |
| 2 | Laura asked the farm manager , Dai Davies , to find her a good Jersey milker and taught herself how to milk the cow . |
| 3 | Of course he had got to know him a good deal better at Ecalpemos … |
| 4 | To find myself a Good Career to Travel and |
| 5 | But I notice , little madam , you were pleased enough to find yourself a good Catholic … . ’ |
| 6 | I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence . |
| 7 | If you have a really warm relationship with your elderly parent and the two of you communicate well , you may also be able to help her a good deal by occasional discussions on attitudes generally in bereavement and the more positive aspects of what has been such a tragic and painful experience for her ; steering her tenderly towards the realisation that what she now has is not only what Dylan Thomas 's wife described as ‘ left-over life to kill ’ , but left-over love to give , which is a very different thing . |
| 8 | Unlike the Beggar , the friend does return once , looks over Hoccleve 's work ( a translation from the Gesta Romanorum ) , and goes home to fetch him a better copy , including the moralising of the tale which Hoccleve 's copy lacks , and which he immediately begins to translate . |
| 9 | AFTER such a long hot summer , with rivers running dry , it 's difficult to imagine what a good flood looks like . |
| 10 | He thought I might know something and he wanted to do me a good turn . ’ |
| 11 | He has just offered to give me a good rogering . |
| 12 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
| 13 | Now that we have a permanent place to meet we would like to start up a library as some folks can not afford to buy reading material so if you have any books that you have finished with or which are duplicates and would like to make room for new editions we will be happy to give them a good home where they will be used and appreciated . |
| 14 | I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall . |
| 15 | Shower heads should be cleaned regularly with a nail brush ; every so often use a descaler to give them a good clean . |
| 16 | There was time when they had to bribe er , give some sort of er incentive to the foreman to give them a good time , then it was the shop stewards who would give the workers to the management who will do the o overtime . |
| 17 | There was a full social programme to give them a good impression of Scotland and its people . |
| 18 | Your plants will need time to become really well established to give them a better chance of surviving a harsh winter . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 20 | Delaney pulled the curtain across , covering Forster who cut a small slit in the opaque green plastic , widening it to give himself a better field of view . |
| 21 | And John meantime seeks always to dismiss me as incompetent and neurotic ( probably , as people wiser than me , such as his own lawyer , say , he does this to suit his own ends and to give himself a good press and to live within his own fantasies and eccentricities . ) |
| 22 | It will be on every player 's mind when he stands on the tee to give himself the best chance of an uphill putt , whether it be from that tee shot or a subsequent approach . |
| 23 | While Sarazen felt ‘ the biggest heel in the world ’ , he also knew he had to give himself the best chance of winning the Open ; and that , regrettably , could not be achieved with his old caddie Dan . |
| 24 | It is designed to give you a good return on your money over the longer term . |
| 25 | We 'd really like to give you a good day . |
| 26 | Some detectors incorporate the two types in a single unit to give you a better performance . |
| 27 | We have spent £110 million enlarging the terminal and creating a spacious new environment to give you a better standard of service . |
| 28 | To give you a better idea of how these three areas can contribute to self-control and ability to succeed with weight control , we will next look at each of them in some detail . |
| 29 | To give you a better idea of what you 'll be paying for , we put five shoes from leading manufacturers to the test . |
| 30 | You should enquire what the rules are and additionally , to give you a better idea of what size pension you might realistically expect , you could ask for some practical examples — say , over the last five years — of retired individuals in a similar earnings bracket to your own . |