Example sentences of "have [adv] a good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm not really sure how I became friends with the boy , but he also has quite a good personality , + I can have a good laugh with him .
2 Should the discussion stray just once from generic to specific advice , however casually ( ‘ the Borsetshire Union has quite a good deal on offer at the moment ’ ) , investment business has been carried out .
3 Well when I worked at , when I started off in the I quite liked my job in there , you made your own pay , and I liked , it was a starching job , I 'd quite a good job in there .
4 but they 've had quite a good dinnertime today so I think they 're letting her stop a bit longer .
5 Hnatiuk at the bank said he 's always had quite a good balance in his savings account — for a kid — and he 's deposited quite a bit of money recently .
6 Wolfgang , meanwhile , was having rather a good time in Vienna on his own , staying sometimes with his friends Leutgeb the horn-player and the Puchbergs , who kept him fed , and going out drinking with an old friend , Emmanuel Schikaneder , an actor , singer , writer and producer and the manager of the Theater auf der Wieden in the suburbs .
7 If you do n't you have quite a good chance of getting malaria if you 've been bitten .
8 These suppliers , having therefore a good stock of P Notes , but perhaps not much cash , will often use the Notes to pay their suppliers in turn , and so the chain builds up .
9 I was beginning to have quite a good time , and might have imagined for myself a series of tragic scenes of truly poetic power and solemn grandeur , and was wondering how my dear and attractive wife would look in widow 's weeds , when this character started speaking on the radio , and totally ruined my train of thought .
10 We used to have quite a good time .
11 Erm towards the end of the year and the erm and Spear erm Spear had rather a good year , so that 's our capital insurance company in Bermuda erm no claims .
12 The initial shock must have been terrible , but in fact she had rather a good war .
13 I had quite a good vocabulary and had written letters to Eric , but I had n't had anyone to talk to in English .
14 I had quite a good chat with Ray the other day , yes , eh .
15 ‘ Deportivo had quite a good team before we came , but they did n't believe in themselves .
16 I did my usual tap dancing on the table , but actually had quite a good time .
17 The excess sail is rolled up neatly around the mast out of the way and still I 've good a good sail shape .
18 On the whole , they had either been through the English education system and had therefore a good command of English and a limited domestic register in their other languages , or they had been educated abroad and learnt their English as adults when they arrived in this country .
19 In fact in my company we have rather a good scheme .
20 Since we may acquit the Scots of choosing a day of such apparent ill-omen because of their foreboding that Mary represented a new disaster , we have here a good example of their ability to recover self-confidence , and consign catastrophe to the past .
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