Example sentences of "i [vb past] the good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this field I found the best combination was to set the Silver Sabre at minimum discrimination and maximum sensitivity . |
| 2 | ‘ I played the best round of golf I 've ever played to get into the play-off , so rather than feeling disappointed I 'm feeling very confident . ’ |
| 3 | In the end , I judged the best option to be to talk in the privacy of his room , thus giving him the opportunity to ponder his new situation in solitude once I took my leave . |
| 4 | I imagined the best china |
| 5 | He would far rather that I acted the good housewife instead . |
| 6 | I think I can say I walked the best part of the rivers in my district . ’ |
| 7 | Here , one Friday evening I heard the best news so far . |
| 8 | Eventually , then , I decided the best strategy would be simply to stride out of the room very suddenly at a furious pace . |
| 9 | I decided the best thing to do was keep busy , so I tried to recall my antenatal classes — I could n't remember a thing . |
| 10 | In the end I decided the best thing was to put you to bed and let you sleep it off . ’ |
| 11 | I brought the Good Food Guide . |
| 12 | I thought the best thing to do was spare Oliver 's blushes , so I murmured something about getting off to work . |
| 13 | I thought the best thing to be , before this went any further , was brisk . |
| 14 | ‘ I did the better work inside . |
| 15 | I liked the good life , had a happy-go-lucky attitude . |
| 16 | You know , I had the best lager |
| 17 | I had the best schooling in the world . |
| 18 | I had the best time ever . ’ |
| 19 | I had the good fortune to work with a brilliant head of department , and paid £10 for a 1927 Austin 7 in which I drove uncertainly every day from Wimbledon . |
| 20 | My subject was French history , and although my focus was on a relatively obscure piece of ecclesiastical history I had the good fortune to work with the most genial and scholarly of humanists , Professor Alfred Cobban of the University of London . |
| 21 | Before sunrise I had the good fortune to discover that it was no longer necessary to maintain the horizontal posture , and came out on deck at two o'clock in the morning to see a noble full moon sinking westward and millions of the most brilliant stars shining overhead . |
| 22 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 23 | After interviewing Susannah ( this was back in 1980 on the set of The Awakening ) , I had the good fortune to meet and interview John Huston and I challenged him on Susannah 's story . |
| 24 | I had the good fortune to have two older sisters around the house , who basically had to do all the nasty dirty work . |
| 25 | I had the good fortune to sit between Ian Bedford , whom I have known since he was a teenager ; and David Sieff , so I never had a dull moment ! |
| 26 | Meanwhile Dr. Elliott Gabellah , acting President of the African National Council — with whom I had the good fortune to breakfast , morning after morning , at the Caux world assembly last August — is conferring with Presidents Kaunda and Nyerere in Zambia . |
| 27 | In 1957 I had the good fortune to visit the geologically exciting country of Turkey , to look at some of the local Mesozoic rocks and their faunas . |
| 28 | On 6th May — the day on which , incidentally , it actually snowed ! — I had the good fortune to play in the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major , which formed one halfofa concert in the second part of which was the first performance of Vaughan Williams ' Sancta Civitas . |
| 29 | On a recent visit to New Zealand , my wife and I had the good fortune to meet up with Alf and Muriel Newton . |
| 30 | There has been a Europeanisation of academic life over the past 20 years since I had the good luck to be appointed to Edinburgh 's Regius Chair of Public Law . |