Example sentences of "they had a good [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They had a good reputation for being able to develop mechanical ideas if you briefed them well ( they had already built the TARDIS console for Peter Brachaki ) . |
2 | They had a good home farm , the Gotobeds . |
3 | ‘ I take risks , but they 're calculated risks and I would n't take them if I did n't think they had a good chance of succeeding . |
4 | Even in Wessex and East Anglia the ravaged territories were not always particularly extensive at any one time , and much of the population may have reckoned that they had a good chance of escaping . |
5 | courses in turn , tended to select for observation those schools where they had a good relationship with the drama specialist . |
6 | She was n't in love with Ryan , but he was cute and they had a good relationship . |
7 | They had a good artist . |
8 | Reaching the bridge , they had a good look round but found nothing . |
9 | Anyway when they had a good look at it the front half was an Escort and the back half was an Orion , half a stolen car . |
10 | He took stick from everyone his mates said it was about time they had a good laugh . |
11 | They had a good night 's sleep but they had a tremendous job waking up this morning . |
12 | Apart from collecting money from the offertory at Mass , which was always very well attended , they had a good income from what they charged individuals to have Masses said for the souls of the dead . |
13 | They had a good past and a reasonable future , but they were ruined by the highest interest rates this century and an unrealistic exchange rate , which lost them export markets and provided further competition in their home markets . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | They had a good supper of eggs and milk and crunchy , fresh bread in the kitchen which was as clean as the rest of the house but more cheerful with a big range fire that threw out heat like a furnace . |
16 | The trio felt the time was right ; they had worked together for four years , and they had a good track record — an important factor when it came to raising money for the new venture . |
17 | They had a good evening together , all the same . |
18 | They had a good diet of bread , margarine , jam and bacon for breakfast , roast beef , potatoes and greens , and rice pudding for lunch , and bread and jam for tea with cake once a week . |
19 | Denis Smith says he enjoyed himself at Stoke especially in the early seventies when they had a good team … as a professional he wants Oxford to win but after the game will revert to being a stoke supporter … he says his young son also supports them |
20 | They had a good training group and indicated a keen desire to learn and apply the same professionalism to the farm as to their other occupation . |
21 | Anyway , they had a good time out . |
22 | Despite their distinctiveness , they had a good deal in common with the other upper-class groups ; and they were an important source of loans for the growing group of entrepreneurs . |
23 | They had a good job in the paper erm , part of the school . |
24 | They say they had a good hearing |
25 | They say they had a good hearing |
26 | They were well funded … they had a good library area with lots of money , a chartered librarian ( which is unusual ) , and were very supported by the rest of the staff through the school . |
27 | Well because they had a better goal average in all the other games . |
28 | And in this new structure , where the prime minister 's secretary popped out of holes and asked them what they thought , they had a better chance than any previous dean and chapter . |
29 | Before the Americans were irrevocably committed , however , and before the French positions on the Chinese frontier were overrun , they could conceivably have strengthened non-communist national forces in Vietnam to the point where they had a better chance of competing with the Vietminh or even , biting on the bullet , the French could have tried to negotiate a settlement , no matter what alarm that prospect might have caused their American allies . |
30 | They had a better line in diplomacy than old Chamberlain himself and certainly did more good in the world . |