Example sentences of "it had [been] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the Chelsea manager , Bobby Campbell , and Arsenal assistant , Theo Foley , agreed it had been a good match , and the spectators ' complaints were muted . |
| 2 | It had been a good lunch and conversation had been light and easy . |
| 3 | Mr. O'Callaghan said it had been a good contest and the closeness in the result showed how evenly the teams were matched . |
| 4 | His huge opponent lay defeated and bloodied , and his blood-lust was more than satisfied ; it had been a good night and it was time to go . |
| 5 | It was just bad luck for the second man that it had been a good place . |
| 6 | But it had been a good day . |
| 7 | Paula Kahn , chairman and chief executive of Longman Group , commented that it had been a good year for Longman ‘ despite the impact of the recession in some of our key markets around the world , particularly our ELT markets in Europe ’ . |
| 8 | It had been a good year for Kenneth personally , too . |
| 9 | Lugh was not sure , now , if it had been a good idea to bring Dorrainge . |
| 10 | It had been a good dinner and the réserve maison had sent pleasant messages around her system , signifying that after the adventures of the day , all was now well . |
| 11 | In Norwich , Christmas was ‘ reasonable but not exceptional ’ for Jarrolds , according to Barbara Gaskin , but it had been a good year and will see Jarrolds 8% up on 1991 . |
| 12 | It had been a good joke . |
| 13 | It was a crap heap , really by the time he 'd got it , but you know , it had been a good car . |
| 14 | Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first . |