Example sentences of "a [adj] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tall and slightly stooped , Yusupov normally shows a shy good humour in his conversation , but he has looked increasingly serious these last few days . |
| 2 | If she had the sense she 'd been born with she 'd get up from the table right now , wish him a polite good evening , and scuttle back to the safety of the dressing-room , there to make a pledge never to risk being in his company again . |
| 3 | " But she 's a bugger … kicks like a 'oss , She 's a right good milker but … " |
| 4 | We used to mark her up special on the calendar ; and we took care to make a right good job of her : we took an extra lot of trouble with her shoes so we could keep her away as long as we could . |
| 5 | If so you should make the eggception — it 's a good egg ( honest ) and a right good game to boot ! |
| 6 | John How was a solid good preacher but not a magnet to multitudes . |
| 7 | By anybody 's standards the new Mock Turtles single ‘ Can You Dig It ’ is a classic good tune , with a soupçon of grooviness . |
| 8 | The CAP should be scaled down — thus releasing resources for industrial and investment — and replaced by a European Good Food Policy . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 10 | recession , but it 's just the , I think it 's just a bloody good excuse to streamline a company that 's |
| 11 | He told me to give her a bloody good gallop round t'field . " |
| 12 | Before I could answer his questions he remarked slowly , ‘ You know , Boyo , I had a bloody good dream . |
| 13 | ‘ I bet they put up a bloody good fight , ’ he said . |
| 14 | I wo n't leave my kids without a bloody good fight . |
| 15 | Sadly , mass closures and redundancies have become commonplace , it 's no longer hitting the headlines , just a few small columns in the paper , so I ask you delegates , go back to your branches , raise the issue not just about coal but about all unemployment , chase up the media , write to your M P , especially the Tories , support the rallies and maybe a petition from this conference could be organized , but I say raise hell , give them no peace , one job loss is one too many and we ai n't gon na accept redundancy in any of our sections without a bloody good fight . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've got a bloody good chance , ’ is Howe 's optimistic forecast . |
| 17 | We produced a bloody good kid … |
| 18 | Yeah because he 's a , he 's a bloody good worker but and when he 's like Cor ! |
| 19 | If he was n't , he was a bloody good con man and had rented out an office in Love Lane nick under false pretences . |
| 20 | A fair man and a bloody good admiral — but do n't tell him I said so . |
| 21 | ‘ Nils is a bloody good cook , ’ he said with his mouth full . |
| 22 | He 's such a bloody good driver . ’ |
| 23 | And we concluded that it was a bloody good idea . |
| 24 | ‘ And I 'm sure it will be a bloody good race . ’ |
| 25 | Moreover when there were fights , observed the chairman of the Birmingham City Supporters ' Club , ‘ it was punch-ups among men in those days … when I was a lad , if I stepped out of line I got a bloody good hiding from my Dad ’ . |
| 26 | GRANT took Tottenham in 1987 with a 4,141 majority ; he was already notorious for his comments made after the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985 — ‘ the youths around here believe the police were to blame for what happened on Sunday and what they got was a bloody good hiding ’ . |
| 27 | projects has done a bloody good selling exercise because he 's convinced these people |
| 28 | ‘ I told Fitzroy : ‘ You are a bloody good player and you do n't need to be doing that . |
| 29 | I guess the fans love him because 1 ) he 's a bloody good player — he proved that at Arse ; 2 ) they think he 's had a bit of a raw deal especially last year when he was n't played and the rest of the team wer n't exactly setting the Premiership on fire ! ! |
| 30 | ‘ Piper , it 's a bloody good job you were not wearing your kilt last night during the patrol . ’ |