Example sentences of "have [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | While we have to accept that some people have had a good go at blowing up the present inhabitant , would it not be simpler for her to emulate a previous incumbent and move up the road to Admiralty House ? |
| 32 | Noise and Other Statutory Nuisances We have had a good relationship with our neighbours in the past and will endeavour to continue to maintain these . |
| 33 | We have had a good relationship with the borough councils and do n't want to lose it . ’ |
| 34 | We have had a good couple of months and we are fairly positive about the outlook for the remainder of the year . ’ |
| 35 | We have had a good response from some areas , but would like to recruit lay members from Spennymoor , Ferryhill and Trimdon areas . |
| 36 | ‘ I showed it to some of my friends and they have had a good laugh about it . |
| 37 | Its Swallow Hotels have had a good year , helped by the first full year 's trading at Peterborough and Waltham Abbey . |
| 38 | Or , as Roberts cheerfully confesses : ‘ We have had a good year . |
| 39 | We have had a good year with minor upsets , such as a cataract operation for me which was no trouble at all , and has resulted in a dramatic improvement in my eyesight . |
| 40 | We have had a good year , barring accidents , and although the summer weather was disastrous we have been more than compensated by the most beautiful Autumn ever . |
| 41 | But looking back on his past he can say simply : ‘ I have had a good time . ’ |
| 42 | Joel , 38 , who won Gola League title honours with Runcorn 11 years ago , said : ‘ I have had a good time as a player and I have decided that enough is enough . |
| 43 | Lots of people are talking about far better results than that — and we have had a good start — but we have to keep our feet firmly on the ground . ’ |
| 44 | How many rabbits have had a good meal off men 's rubbish heaps ? |
| 45 | As he put it : ‘ The planners and the road engineers have had a good bashing , but they have learnt their lesson . |
| 46 | Ethologists have offered a good deal of cross-cultural evidence , usually in the form of pictures of infants seizing each others ' toys and pushing each other about in sandpits , to support the view that the tendency to direct unprovoked action upon another person is at least universal , even though there is nothing in the evidence to suggest a unique origin for the tendency . |
| 47 | They reckon Lancastrians have got a good pint of Boddys . |
| 48 | That would worry me if I was a Labour Party member because you have got a good case but you are not putting it across in a way that convinces doctors themselves . |
| 49 | ‘ At the moment , Clive and Trevor have got a good pattern going and I do n't think playing three strikers figures in the manager 's plans . ’ |
| 50 | The fact we have got a good track record and have been serving the pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals industries for some time means we can get work but we have to cut our margins . |
| 51 | So we have had a failing government , we 've had a failing Tory administration , and the people who are interested in looking after this county and all it 's services within the budget set by central government , has made sure that we have got a good police force , which it will not receive cuts in it 's services , cuts in it 's er , it 's , it 's er , forces , and make sure that other services , like education , social services , libraries , highways and everything else will also be adequately funded in this county . |
| 52 | You learned to speak a long time ago and , no doubt , you have talked a good deal since then . |
| 53 | Maybe you have cultivated a good relationship with your dealer . |
| 54 | We have spent a good part of the last decade in a long and often rather frustrating attempt to identify them ( most recently by trying to make specific antibodies that will recognize them ) . |
| 55 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 56 | I have spent a good deal of time trying to improve cost-efficiency without detracting too greatly from the service you enjoy , and I trust this is an acceptable compromise . |
| 57 | Figure E9.1 gives the age-sex profiles for two countries that have experienced a good deal of immigration . |
| 58 | Once you have found a good retailer do n't fall into the trap of also buying from sources that are less ideal . |
| 59 | Quite by accident we have found a good way to trapping earwigs . |
| 60 | This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment . |