Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He thought I might know something and he wanted to do me a good turn . ’ |
| 7 | He has just offered to give me a good rogering . |
| 8 | Better to give them a good life here than to let them suffer in the vague hope of some better afterlife . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Shower heads should be cleaned regularly with a nail brush ; every so often use a descaler to give them a good clean . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was a full social programme to give them a good impression of Scotland and its people . |
| 14 | Your plants will need time to become really well established to give them a better chance of surviving a harsh winter . |
| 15 | It is designed to give you a good return on your money over the longer term . |
| 16 | We 'd really like to give you a good day . |
| 17 | Some detectors incorporate the two types in a single unit to give you a better performance . |
| 18 | We have spent £110 million enlarging the terminal and creating a spacious new environment to give you a better standard of service . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To give you a better idea of what you 'll be paying for , we put five shoes from leading manufacturers to the test . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I feel we ought to be able to give you a better idea of the performance of different planning authorities . |
| 23 | In the inch wars , Ryvita helps you win — so goes the old advert punch line , but which of the two main Graphical User Interfaces is likely to be the one to give you the best operating environment ? |
| 24 | Because they are required by law to give you the best investment advice , and unless they find out your personal details they ca n't do that . |
| 25 | If you 're the first correct entry out of the hat we 'll be straight on the phone to give you the good news and arrange the presentation . |
| 26 | No one from your past comes to mind who might want to do you a good turn ? ’ |
| 27 | From the Carlowitz peace negotiations with the Habsburgs in 1699 , successive grand viziers began to leave him a good deal of control over foreign affairs , though he again was also entrusted with a wide variety of other and quite different functions . |
| 28 | ‘ Had to give her a good talking to . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't try to give her a good character , Mrs Fairfax , ’ said Mr Rochester sternly . |
| 30 | Annie was nursed back to full health by the kind nuns who adopted her and they were able to give her a good education . |