Example sentences of "had a good [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doctor Teesdale was unmarried , and had a good income of his own . |
| 2 | It looked good and had a good choice of books . ’ |
| 3 | I kept Joanna in commission , her food locker in the small cuddy where I both cooked and slept well stocked with keeping-stores , and she had a good reserve of fuel for the outboard . |
| 4 | He had a good idea of what was coming . |
| 5 | I did however , have a shaky start with casting on , but I read the instruction book , back to front and upside down until I had a good idea of what I was doing , resulting in two 4-ply cardigans for my eldest two grand-daughters . |
| 6 | She had a good idea of what this revelation was going to be , and was even beginning to enjoy their discomfiture . |
| 7 | I thought I had a good idea of where at least one copy of the novel would certainly be . |
| 8 | She had a good idea of what the envelope would contain , and she was already feeling faintly irritated . |
| 9 | The company had a good idea of the saleability and value of Nerco 's oil and gas interests , he said . |
| 10 | The Fontanellatesi had a good sense of humour , which helped us to keep up our morale ; one rather large , well-educated lady called Fiora Gandini was able to make us all laugh . |
| 11 | I had a good sense of balance and had got the hang of riding this two-wheeled bike quite well . |
| 12 | She went , moving like a sleepwalker past Ned O'Mara , who might even be in love with her , past the ginger-haired barmaid who would have been happy to settle for Ned and therefore hated her , past the mousy-haired barmaid who had a good man of her own and could therefore afford to pity her . |
| 13 | It was fortunate that I had a good friend of my own age , also called Wanda : we relished being gloomy together . |
| 14 | He had a good head of dark brown hair , and it looked as if he knew a decent barber . |
| 15 | At least I had a good head of hair , even if one or two were gray . |
| 16 | He had a good knowledge of Scotland , particularly the bagpipes , and I am sure if I had offered to go along to Brigade HQ to fetch my bagpipes he would have had me marching up and down the orchard playing his favourite tunes , much to the consternation of the other Commandos , and possibly the annoyance of the Germans just a short distance away . |
| 17 | The Royal family are country people , their interests and off-duty activities are all to do with the countryside , and the Prince always had a good knowledge of its workings ; but it was not until after he became chairman of the steering committee for Wales that he discovered the danger it was in . |
| 18 | Green had a good knowledge of weather and cloud formation , and with his regulation patch of ‘ celestial azure ’ his skies were carefully painted . |
| 19 | The later epitaph suggests that he had a good knowledge of canon law : ‘ legis / doctorem tenuit illa ’ ( namely Gallia ) . |
| 20 | Yes er he eventually er I in fact spoke to a Detective Inspector er at the police station er he informed me that er Detective Constable had a good knowledge of these persons and I therefore instructed that er D C make contact with me which he did a short time later that evening . |
| 21 | We had a good field of fire all round in case the enemy came out of the sunken road or over the hedge . |
| 22 | The dominant females also had their share — Loukoum took the lower half , and Ondine had a good portion of the internal organs . |
| 23 | Most of the submissions , from 35 schools of architecture , had a good grasp of architecture , had a good grasp of hospice philosophy ; the three communities in one — the carers , the relatives and the dying patients . |
| 24 | Most of the submissions , from 35 schools of architecture , had a good grasp of architecture , had a good grasp of hospice philosophy ; the three communities in one — the carers , the relatives and the dying patients . |
| 25 | A nifty bit of sleight of hand got the ashtray into the correct position , and in a few seconds , I had a good quantity of the precious fluid . |
| 26 | As this was something of a lovers ' lane , he had a good chance of catching a couple knobbing on the back seat And Steve , as I 'd already found out for myself , always did like a bit of voyeurism . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought I had a good chance of winning in the end , ’ Vrabel said . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought we had a good chance of tracing the Spidex people through London . |
| 29 | The presence of all these species also meant that I had a good chance of spotting the birds that preyed on them . |
| 30 | All of these felt able to argue that the Serbs had already achieved most of their war aims , and now had a good chance of hanging on to them . |