Example sentences of "[pers pn] have had [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path . |
| 2 | I 'd had a good week . |
| 3 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 4 | My letter was published in full , and I was pleased with myself , for two good reasons : my first literary effort had been accepted ; and I had had a good swipe at the evils of fascism , judging by the stream of supporting letters which followed . |
| 5 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
| 6 | I 've had a good run all week , I 've er |
| 7 | And he said : ‘ I 've had a good rest now and it remains to be seen whether I have still got it . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've had a good crack , ’ he says with unconscious irony . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've had a good look round , June , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ Now , I 've had a good look around it and , you know , there 's nothing really wrong with it , it 's just very old — ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I would say that after a rotten beginning I 've had a good life — That 's not very helpful , is it ? ’ |
| 12 | I 've had a good life , on the whole . ’ |
| 13 | I just move some of this stuff out the way , I know , I 've had a good idea , a smart idea |
| 14 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |
| 15 | ‘ Have a good cry ’ , ‘ I 'll feel better once I 've had a good cry ’ , ‘ I 'm worried about her , she has n't shed a tear since she had the news ’ , are all sayings which have a recognized place in our language . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've had a good week ’ , Helen said . |
| 17 | But looking back on his past he can say simply : ‘ I have had a good time . ’ |
| 18 | Joel , 38 , who won Gola League title honours with Runcorn 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have had a good time as a player and I have decided that enough is enough . |
| 19 | I have had the good fortune to be in Bruges when the city has had a festival and in Ghent for the same sort of thing . |
| 20 | Once she has had a good rest , her world will put on a fresh complexion . ’ |
| 21 | I was very pleased that you 'd had a good go at that |
| 22 | If you 'd had a good horse , you asked for hol holiday with er , alright you 'd get it , you would n't do your horse , you know , they 'd take your horse off you . |
| 23 | Tomorrow , when she 'd had a good night 's sleep , she 'd be much better capable of dealing with him . |
| 24 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
| 25 | By now she 'd had a good look at him . |
| 26 | You 've had a good drink this week . |
| 27 | You 've had a good day out today |
| 28 | Yeah , so you 've had a good time then ? |
| 29 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 30 | I mean once she 's tidied up she 's nice looking when she 's had a good polish and what have you . |