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

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1 He plays throughout Europe and North America and has made a good number of recordings .
2 He must have been sixty or so , but you had to get close to see it and if his hair was grey , someone had made a good job of disguising the fact .
3 The malai photographers had made a good job of it , this genuine FAKINTIL atrocity .
4 Incidentally , I was interested to read in the Financial Times and other newspapers today that the foreman in the Guinness 2 trial of Mr. Seelig and Lord Spens said that the prosecution had made a good job of identifying the structure of that case .
5 I mean , it 's a , it 's a wooden prefab type hut , it 's very hardy done , concrete floors , they 've made a good job of it .
6 Yes , you 've made a good job of it .
7 And they 've made a good job of tiling have n't they ?
8 He 's made a good job of it though .
9 And the people doing it in these garages erm , you know like respraying and doing all the welding and everything , really he said some of the things they were doing if they did it legally they 'd make a good go of it
10 I 'll make a good job of it ; enough to put me a county or two away . ’
11 They were also the most likely to say Dad would not make a good job of being a housewife and should be out at work ( 57pc pc compared to 38pc ) .
12 ‘ The decided to fight her case for her so she could make a good job of it , ’ Mr Robinson claimed .
13 He may even make a good appearance of doing so .
14 After the meeting Mr Fallon said : ‘ We made a good bit of progress .
15 I think you made a good choice of boxes , it 's a bit small but
16 ‘ She made a good job of it too , ’ Alec explained , adding like a good Scot , ‘ and of course there 's a small benefit to me because now I draw a rent allowance . ’
17 ‘ Well , anyway , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd , ‘ I 'm glad you made a good job of it . ’
18 In the office we shall remember our as the hard working , level headed lady who always made a good job of the task in hand .
19 Some made a good job of the sandwich element , but many paid it lip service .
20 As it was , she made a good show of appearing delighted .
21 You will need to remove all pots and switches to do this , so make a good diagram of the wiring before you do so .
22 ‘ And your conclusions are far from worthless , they make a good deal of sense to me .
23 I thought to myself , ‘ Jimmy Dickinson does n't go abroad and certainly not to the States , so if I make a good job of it at Walton Heath I might be caddying for Sandy full-time in the future . ’
24 Make a good job of it while you 're at it . "
25 ‘ Get to work , Isaac — and make a good job of it .
26 Make a good job of it .
27 He reduced this approach to six principles , which make a good summary of the essentials of political Realism .
28 Being disenchanted with life , they may resent those who are contentedly coping with things as best they can and are making a good job of it .
29 Nobody inside or outside the administration is making a good job of selling the tax .
30 They only fought in order to protect somebody else ( ‘ like one of the younger kids who 's getting smashed up ’ ) but were clearly very capable of making a good job of it .
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