Example sentences of "[vb infin] had a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could see that if the circumstances of their meeting had been happier they would have had a good drink of her mother 's secret stash of Bushmill 's and reminisced all night . |
| 2 | ‘ They might have had a good sleep — but we certainly have n't ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll have had a good life , and I 'll have tried , and I 'll have made something of myself . |
| 5 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 6 | ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it . |
| 7 | Hey they must have had a good meal other night . |
| 8 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 9 | She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant . |
| 10 | Hector McLean the eminent scholar in Anthropology and Celtic Literature who gave so much help to J , F. Campbell in the preparation of " Popular Tales of the West Highlands " must have had a good library and another schoolmaster at Ballygrant , Neil MacAlpine , can not have compiled his Gaelic Dictionary without one . |
| 11 | It may not be a good reason to us , but they must have had a good reason to do it , either family-wise or tension-wise , or because of life in general . |
| 12 | But they will have had a good reason . ’ |