Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] the good " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd met the best , the most famous , and the richest , and they did n't have what this guy had , and I wanted it . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd given the best years of my life to television . |
| 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 | I came to despise the good honest smell of bread and the deference my mother gave to her wealthy clients . |
| 5 | Again I went to help the best of English Sisters who had not joined Queen Alexandra 's Service , but had stayed for our children . |
| 6 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
| 7 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 8 | I knew when I had played the best game on the rugby field . |
| 9 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
| 10 | Much as I wanted to read the good news on my walk home from the newspaper shop , I was forced to concentrate on my footing on broken and delapidated pavements , strewn with take-away food rubbish , wrappings of all kinds , and collections of weeds , heaps of dog dirt and drinks cans . |
| 11 | I 'd got his bag through my caddie-master friend Dicky Powell , and I wanted to make the best of it . |