Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | On arrival at Newcastle station he told reporters : ‘ I hope my boys will give United a good game ’ — but beyond that he was ‘ courteously discreet and silent ’ . |
2 | I hear you 've got a good voice . ’ |
3 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
4 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
5 | By then it will have developed a good root system and the new plant can be severed from the parent plant and replanted . |
6 | Had you said this first instead of producing emotional gush about the hospital 's welfare , we could have saved a good deal of time . |
7 | They must have done a good job and not over ‘ humanised ’ her because her introduction to the chimp group was problem-free . |
8 | You may have done a good job on your own patch but you can not clear the entire neighbourhood . |
9 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
10 | I would n't have made a good martyr , for the frown of the tyrant alarmed me more than the threat of wild beasts or the rack . |
11 | Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 . |
12 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
13 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
14 | But Jan Peerce makes a very coarse and unromantic Alfredo , and Licia Albanese , who might have made a good shot at the role of Violetta under more sympathetic direction , sounds particularly nervous and unsettled . |
15 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked . |
16 | He himself could always eat ; he would have made a good soldier . |
17 | ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’ |
18 | No , neither did I. Would have made a good headline , would n't it … |
19 | This village blacksmith was not a ‘ mighty man ’ at all ; in fact , he was much smaller than Micky , his twelve-year-old son , who would have made a good model for the Fat Boy in the Pickwick Papers . |
20 | She may have cried a good deal without understanding why . |
21 | Any member of stab who went into the Biology Lab before her would have needed a good excuse to explain his presence there , unless , of course , he was a member of the Biology Department . |
22 | She could see that if the circumstances of their meeting had been happier they would have had a good drink of her mother 's secret stash of Bushmill 's and reminisced all night . |
23 | ‘ They might have had a good sleep — but we certainly have n't ! ’ |
24 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
25 | I 'll have had a good life , and I 'll have tried , and I 'll have made something of myself . |
26 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
27 | ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it . |
28 | Hey they must have had a good meal other night . |
29 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
30 | She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant . |