Example sentences of "have [verb] the good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | KAREN MELLOR has located the best deals in London , Britain 's other major cities and in national chain stores . |
| 2 | It merely means that he has selected the best presentation of the subject for your assistance . |
| 3 | ‘ She has seen the best specialists in Europe . ’ |
| 4 | Having said that , this season has seen the best conditions for controlling the weed for some time . |
| 5 | Social workers and the courts are facing a problem which has defeated the best efforts of families and professionals ; whatever the wording , few courts will be willing to gamble on children whom they refuse to commit to security not returning to prostitution , burning down a house , or injuring themselves . |
| 6 | It has championed the best artists from the Soviet Union ; it has supported feminist art , some of it theoretically difficult and perhaps recalcitrant to a wide audience ; it has staged recuperative exhibitions such as the Independent Group . |
| 7 | We are confident that the RIBA has made the best decision available to protect the future well being of the Journal . |
| 8 | He has shown the best form of his career and won over boo-boys on the Ayresome Park terraces . |
| 9 | Certainly we must hope that the government in its final response will take the arguments put forward by Alvey somewhat further ; after all it has had the best part of six months to consider them . |
| 10 | At last that shy retiring dragon , Little Puff ( remember his first game ? ) has had the good sense to change his name . |
| 11 | Who has played the better rugby ? |
| 12 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 13 | And Senegal , one of the 30 poorest nations in the world has set the best example of all . |
| 14 | The Mini sofa has proved the best seller and if demand goes on rising he 's hoping to turn out up to twenty of these off-beat seats a week . |
| 15 | The Mini sofa has proved the best seller and if demand goes on rising he 's hoping to turn out up to twenty of these off-beat seats a week . |
| 16 | The Church , and that means all of us , including you , not just priests and bishops , has to spread the Good News to all the world . |
| 17 | The 24-year-old central defender has hit the best form of his career . |
| 18 | It has taken the best elements from several Dutch schemes the Dutch being recognised as the experts in creating wetland nature reserves . |
| 19 | WHO HAS recorded the best innings bowling analysis in Tests at the following grounds ? |
| 20 | When researchers want to understand what it is like to be , say , a Moonie , they can submit themselves to the sorts of conditions that a Moonie experiences — so far as these are social ; but the real Moonie can , quite legitimately , protest that if the researcher does not have a personal experience of God or actually know in their heart that it is the Unification Church which has discovered the best way to live , they can not really understand what it is like to be a Moonie . |
| 21 | And finally , rally ace Colin McRae has achieved the best place by a British driver in any World Championship event : by finishing second in the Swedish rally . |
| 22 | It follows the tremendous success of his first book Recipes from Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons ( Macdonald Orbis , £17.50 ) , which has topped the best sellers ' list with more than 65,000 sales . |
| 23 | A RARE movie — the mainly horrible How The West Was Won is another — that tries to include the whole arc of the West in its plot , expending its first hours on the virgin land as Kevin Costner communes with nature and Indians , but the finale has to admit the good days are gone , as demonstrated by the coming of the brutish cavalry intent on making the Sioux the first victims of the expansionist whites . |
| 24 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd given the best years of my life to television . |
| 26 | He 'd said the best place for the people of Dynmouth was in their coffins . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They were descendants of Iapyx , a son of the great Daedalus 's , who 'd had the good sense not to fly . |
| 29 | She 'd had to wait the best part of a month at Holmsly Manor , and then everything had happened at once . |
| 30 | Mildred dived for Ethel 's bench , knowing that Ethel would have made the best potion of all , and there it was , dark green and bubbling in the cauldron , with a half-full test-tube conveniently spilling a puddle of the liquid onto the bench . |