Example sentences of "would have [verb] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The kiosk would 've done good business today , ’ thought Marie . |
| 2 | Already he was beginning to steal glances at the clock , comparing it needlessly with his own watch , missing bits of the film while he made rapid calculations as to whether he might conceivably be able to see Bridget home , and , when this had become out of the question , as to how long they would have to say good night at the hated corner . |
| 3 | As a magazine article , any one of these chapters would have made good reading . |
| 4 | Dunes , palm trees , mud-brick villages , children and animals would have made good picture postcards , but , for all its beauty , the desert was terrifying . |
| 5 | It would have made good drama to pit Bernard 's projection of mass production against Laura 's fears that this would threaten to destroy the ethnic and cottage industry appeal upon which the business was based . |
| 6 | It was a perfectly serious prophecy , for which I would have paid good money had I gone to one of the Haleiwa psychics . |
| 7 | Anne would have had good use for a machete . |
| 8 | People who committed crimes in the past 10 years while on bail would have to provide good reasons why they should be released . |