Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 2 | His senses told him he was on to a good thing and his senses were rarely wrong . |
| 3 | Maybe he thought he was on to a good thing . |
| 4 | Jean-Paul was in no doubt that he was on to a good deal . |
| 5 | Multiply that up by two or three hundred stores , and you will see he was on to a good thing . |
| 6 | Poverty amongst the lower classes was an expected and accepted facet of societal structure and education was rarely of a good standard , being intended for a lowly station in life , laced with religion and related to prescribing the sanctity of the sabbath . |
| 7 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 8 | In only one respect were my original living arrangements altered , and it was all for the best . |
| 9 | Hari 's face was pale and Emily told herself sternly that it was all for the best , together she and Hari would prosper . |
| 10 | ‘ He realized I 'd be knocked out and did his utmost to persuade me it was all for the best . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps it was all for the best you lost the baby , Helen , ’ her mother said when Helen went to visit her . |
| 12 | The former won , which was all to the good as far as the SAS was concerned . |
| 13 | However it was all in a good cause and , like a lot of these things , fun when you left off and could look back and laugh . |
| 14 | It was all in a good cause . |
| 15 | But the event was all in a good cause . |
| 16 | But the hard work was all in a good cause . |
| 17 | It was all in a good cause however , because they were taking part in a five-day team building exercise . |
| 18 | But it was all in a good cause . |
| 19 | It was all in a good cause . |
| 20 | However , it was all in a good cause as the sponsored walk organised by accounts supervisor Andrena Cowan , raised £1,300 towards the cost of an Ultra Sound Scanner . |
| 21 | Tension was mounting as preparations got underway for the first ever race between a balloon , a steamroller … and a narrowboat.As entrants arrived for the annual steam rally at Upton , the contestants in the battle of the giants were all expressing optimism.Balloonist Chris Viles reckoned he was in with a good chance : |
| 22 | McHale said McGee was in with a good chance of starting against Halifax because he can play in defence or midfield . |
| 23 | Some Orcadian cat was in for a good supper . |
| 24 | From what she had read in the diary , it seemed any boy with a pleasing face and the latest clothes was in for a good time . |
| 25 | I believe that my account of events is a good deal nearer the truth than some that have since been published : but then I was perhaps in a better position than some other observers to know what was going on . |
| 26 | It was just like the good old days . |
| 27 | Also , the engines originally ran on ‘ Pool ’ petrol which was not of the best quality . |
| 28 | Her own health by that time was not of the best and she latterly resided in Dalnair House , Croftamie , where she was well cared for . |
| 29 | He walked with a teeter , as though he was in the middle of falling on his nose , and brandished a glass lens on a stick as a warning to those in his way that his eyesight was not of the best . |
| 30 | But last night Taylor said : ‘ Our case was that the video showed evidence of contact between the players and that the referee was not in a good position to judge . ’ |