Example sentences of "had [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gains had been welcomed by the government as confirmation that its economic policies had received a good response from investors . |
| 2 | One compositor , Jean Henderson whose daughter kindly provided me with information , went into the trade ( in the 1890s , that is some time after the earliest entrants ) straight from the Dean Orphanage , where she had received a good education ( see Plate 1 ) . |
| 3 | He was slow to sign up two aged persons as being of unsound mind , and only did so after they had given a good deal of trouble at the workhouse . |
| 4 | As long ago as 1172 Henry II had promised to mount a crusade and ever since then he had done nothing about it — though he had given a good deal of financial aid to the stricken kingdom . |
| 5 | Founder and director Lesley Scott-Ordish hoped we had enjoyed a good night , and we had . |
| 6 | As before , he was concerned to hear that we had enjoyed a good flight to his native city , had found a good hotel and that we were managing to survive the bitter cold , the snow and the ice of a Canadian winter . |
| 7 | The Collector had sat a good deal in this chair over the past few days and it had come to affect his habits of thought . |
| 8 | To give him his due , Sorley had picked a good place for his sneak preview of Patterson 's mail . |
| 9 | I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye . |
| 10 | His educational opportunities had been considerable and he had seen a good deal of Russian government from the inside . |
| 11 | Anne , the Pixie Second , often ran errands for her , and at one time or another most of the Brownies in the Pack had done a good turn for the little old lady . |
| 12 | A midwife with 25 years experience , she thought she had done a good job — then she discovered the truth . |
| 13 | The Civil Affairs Service had done a good job in my estimation . |
| 14 | That publisher had done a good job , but I did n't feel that it would really be geared to the sort of mass market that I wanted to reach . |
| 15 | He thought he had done a good job . |
| 16 | Simon the tiler had done a good job . |
| 17 | They had done a good job at that garage . |
| 18 | ‘ We felt Terry Chaplin had done a good job over two years and that the continuity was reflected in your activities , ’ she said . |
| 19 | Coun Jones said the team had done a good job for the whole community . |
| 20 | She had done a good deal more than that . |
| 21 | The growth of western power and activity in Asia had done a good deal to extend the geographical scope of European-type diplomacy . |
| 22 | The PR Department had made a good start in the CASB period with Colonel Glass in charge . |
| 23 | Founded and endowed by Leo Bonn , a deaf merchant banker and financier , the bureau had made a good start , but went into decline during the war . |
| 24 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ said Loretta , grateful that her unpremeditated action the day before had made a good impression on Veronica . |
| 25 | The elderly lay proprietor , Miss Cordelia Claybury , had inherited the madhouse from her father who had made a good living out of the rich and insane . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The malai photographers had made a good job of it , this genuine FAKINTIL atrocity . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Tuathal had made a good job , then , of his ambush . |
| 30 | A London agent , apparently acting for someone anxious for an island property , had made a good offer ‘ sight unseen ’ , and Neil 's solicitors ( who knew the place and the difficulties involved ) had strongly advised him to accept it . |