Example sentences of "had be [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it 's always good to know the odd tuba player ( and let's face it , most of them are ) , Chase unfortunately was a fanatic , believing that there had been no good jazz since the King Oliver band . |
| 2 | Though I was exhausted and had managed only nine miles , it had been a better day than the first . |
| 3 | If he had been a better negotiator , he would have closed the sale that day . |
| 4 | If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had been a good companion ; she did not deserve this from him . |
| 7 | He had been a good nome in his way , they said . |
| 8 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ There had been a good relationship on the whole between the management and myself and it has been supportive on both sides . ’ |
| 10 | She had been a good wife , too . |
| 11 | But it had been a good day . |
| 12 | Today had been a good day . |
| 13 | He had been a good friend to her and when she walked out on her parents she had made straight for the bar , looking for him . |
| 14 | The parable concludes with Jesus making the lawyer admit that the Samaritan had been a good neighbour . |
| 15 | 1951 had been a good year for Minton . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | It had been a good year for Kenneth personally , too . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It had been a good lunch and conversation had been light and easy . |
| 20 | It was by now that and I wondered whether chilli had been a good choice for a hot meal . |
| 21 | I was forced to concede B&B had been a good idea ! |
| 22 | Lugh was not sure , now , if it had been a good idea to bring Dorrainge . |
| 23 | Bringing the Bob Marley had been a good idea , there was n't a cheaper car in the yard , it seemed , except maybe the white Vauxhall Astra with the shirt-button wheels , a car Duncan the Drunken , in a rare lucid moment , had described as a jet-propelled tennis shoe . |
| 24 | Said Platt : ‘ The haggling over the contract spoiled what had been a good summer for me . |
| 25 | There had been a good deal of rain , the Thames was high , and a north-westerly had piled up water at the river 's mouth , waiting for a strong flood tide to carry it up . |
| 26 | In retrospect he said that he felt that the review had been a good thing for the department . |
| 27 | Michael , God love him , had been a good son in many ways . |
| 28 | Yet the Chelsea manager , Bobby Campbell , and Arsenal assistant , Theo Foley , agreed it had been a good match , and the spectators ' complaints were muted . |
| 29 | It was just bad luck for the second man that it had been a good place . |
| 30 | It had been a good joke . |