Example sentences of "had a good [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 And when my father spoke about He got a holi they got a holiday from the school , that day , because the teacher came to see this old body going out the glen that 's body and they walked out , so it 'd be two miles out and then maybe another three miles up the er Glen Shee kirk here , so they had a good bit to carry him .
2 The Adjutant , however , had a good word to say .
3 I remembered buying an ‘ Orange ’ Protestant newspaper in Enniskillen and reading the editor 's lament that no English literary type had a good word to say about Presbyterian loyalists .
4 Even Albert Piggott had a good word to say for the dying man , as he drank his half-pint of bitter at The Two Pheasants .
5 His wife definitely was aware of the relationship and never had a good word to say about Mary .
6 It seemed to be a feature of the case that no one had a good word to say for Nigel Steen .
7 The hon. Member for Clackmannan ( Mr. O'Neill ) may smile ; he is probably one of those who encouraged the cynical use of the community charge and never had a good word to say for it .
8 Everyone had a good story to tell .
9 Wilson had a good chance to level after six minutes but completely mishit his kick .
10 In the evening we all got dressed up to go to a ball nearby , and over dinner I had a good chance to catch up with some friends I had n't seen for years , and meet various husbands too !
11 The Spanish threat was by no means over and in 1590 , with Brittany occupied , the Spaniards had a good base to launch attacks on Cornwall .
12 The temptation to let go was strongly compelling and had a good argument to back it up .
13 British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then .
14 All three on the other hand , and here Blanche was imagining what Parkin might say in his defence once in the interview room , had a good reason to want to see the blame for the murder transferred to Parkin should they have killed Nicola themselves .
15 Harry thought he had a good deal to answer for .
16 When confiding the news to Greeves , he said , ‘ My long night talk with Dyson and Tolkien had a good deal to do with it . ’
17 Nevertheless the underlying sentiment had a good deal to do with Iraq 's inability to stand by the treaty it had signed with Britain at Portsmouth in 1948 , and resentment aroused by post-war developments in Palestine did little to help .
18 Even infants whose mothers were 40 years old or older had a better chance to survive infancy if their fathers were 25–39 years old than if they were 40 years or over .
19 with the ineffable modesty that , because he stood in the direct line of the Apostolic Succession , he had a better right to preach the Gospel and to administer the Sacraments , and was more a minister of Christ than Dr Dale or Mr Spurgeon or Henry Ward Beecher … what could they do but laugh ?
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