Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irate pensioner Kevin Higgins told me : ‘ Just like Maxwell , he tried to play the good guy . |
| 2 | It merely means that he has selected the best presentation of the subject for your assistance . |
| 3 | If the vendor is to feel that he has secured a good deal , then he , like the buyer , must feel that he has won some concessions . |
| 4 | He has built a good team and has a wonderful opportunity and the will to see it through . |
| 5 | Robson , who watched Rocastle last Saturday , said : ‘ He has made a good start to the season . |
| 6 | You may also be shown how to guide his arm movements , if he has made a good enough recovery to practise these correctly . |
| 7 | The courts are generally concerned only with the question whether the promisor has made a bargain , not with whether he has made a good bargain . |
| 8 | ‘ He has proved a better confidential secretary than to give revealing answers , despite his weakness for the opposite sex — however beautiful , ’ Ven replied . |
| 9 | Obviously he is entitled to it if he has got a good case . |
| 10 | It is not schooling but a nasty little trick he has to get the better of me . |
| 11 | Today he has shed a good deal of that ideology — his speech yesterday was social democratic through and through — but he remains devoid of the work experience relevant to his next task which is to convince the country that he , and Labour , are qualified to form the next government . |
| 12 | He has shown the best form of his career and won over boo-boys on the Ayresome Park terraces . |
| 13 | Although he has had a good response from his three other beers , production is still only two barrels a week . |
| 14 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 15 | There are earlier Berman recordings of nearly all the pieces in this latest recital ; in no instance is the interpretation all that different ( though he has found a better edition of Funérailles ) and in most it is rather less satisfying . |
| 16 | It 's simply that he wants to create a better atmosphere , and show that after all he 's a reasonable man , and we should n't be too hard on him in these days . |
| 17 | ‘ If he wants to behave no better than an animal , then let him wallow in it , ’ she told him , and no amount of cajoling would persuade her otherwise . |
| 18 | When pointing out that someone keeps quiet because he wants to make a good impression , why not say so ? |
| 19 | A man gets tired of his business and his family , and he wants to have a good time . |
| 20 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 21 | ‘ Not exactly the Spaniard who blighted my life , but he looked like he 'd blighted a good few others . ’ |
| 22 | He 'd said the best place for the people of Dynmouth was in their coffins . |
| 23 | He 'd made a good start but now he was faltering , and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him . |
| 24 | The one with the fine stripes looked slightly flashier , but he 'd made a better ironing job of the plain one . |
| 25 | When food got scarce , he 'd taken the better paid job of a Sweeper . |
| 26 | The CO sat in another rain-washed tent to receive Charles 's fairly smart salute and ask him if he 'd had a good day . |
| 27 | And he 'd tell me stories or sing to me , and sometimes , after he 'd had a good tumblerful of whisky , he 'd slide his hand up my shorts and stroke my thigh . |
| 28 | He 'd had a good line going with a number of the wives out here — what man had n't ? |
| 29 | I just hoped he 'd had a good surveyor on the job before committing himself . |
| 30 | If I was a less trusting soul I 'd have said he 'd had a good lunch . |