Example sentences of "had [verb] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had heard good reports of the Tesoro Silver Sabre Plus ( especially when fitted with a large coil ) . |
| 2 | Tesco , on the other hand , had received good service from UK-based Merton and had used them again and again . |
| 3 | The one , that , even while giving her a verbal warning about her work , he had handed her a very important file to work on — albeit only to ensure she had little time for anything else — must mean that he had received good reports on her ability . |
| 4 | Amaranth had received good advice from Charles Harvey about the interviews . |
| 5 | For a time the correspondence was brief and businesslike , but it became more expansive after the book had received good reviews : there were thanks for entertainment , and enquiries about reprinting dates . |
| 6 | If he had married Iskandara for her sheep , he had given good measure in return . |
| 7 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 8 | Qaddafi had done good things : they had schools , hospitals , policemen who behaved themselves . |
| 9 | The man had said good morning and Rufus had said hallo and had returned to the task he and Mary were embarked on , covering the flagstones of the terrace with quilts from the bedrooms . |
| 10 | A UN team visited Kuwait in March and reported that although a deliberate attempt had been made to " extinguish Kuwait " , the country had made good progress in dealing with immediate humanitarian needs [ see p. 38082 for mission to Iraq ] . |
| 11 | He had made good use of the last few days . |
| 12 | Going further back again , local authorities had made good use , on a comparative basis , of national reading surveys . |
| 13 | He had reason to believe , he said , that the Normans in Herefordshire had made good use of the Roman building-materials ready to hand , and there was no reason why others should not do the same . |
| 14 | A small jeweller in Switzerland , who for years had made good profits by flagrantly copying de Chavigny designs , using inferior stones , low-carat metals and cheap workmanship , and then passing them off as de Chavigny originals through an impenetrable network of shady dealers and retailers , found its bank was suddenly very glad to extend credit for new workshops and an expansion programme . |
| 15 | They had made good time . |
| 16 | We had made good time and had to ease speed to avoid closing the island in darkness . |
| 17 | After Cromwell , new squires , successful tradesmen , farmers and impoverished Cavaliers who had made good marriages then began to build new houses . |
| 18 | The old studio system which had produced good writers , good directors , good stars , good movies , was breaking up and bits of it were sliding all over the ancient and sacred lots . |
| 19 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 20 | Many locals had had good reason to be grateful to him when times had been hard . |
| 21 | The government , which had had good relations with Iraq , stressed its desire for a peaceful Arab solution to the conflict . |
| 22 | Thought the referee was a bit hasty pulling player back cos Leicester had got good possession . |
| 23 | The large wines and spirits business in the survey referred to two UK firms who had shown good performance — EAL and Whitehead Mann — but apparently had no experience of the largest firms . |
| 24 | I suggested to Wilson that there had to be a short cooling-off period , after which Max Aitken would be a suitable person to go to Rhodesia as an unofficial ambassador , since in the war he had flown with Smith in the RAF and they had become good friends . |
| 25 | ‘ A lot of good any of that did when we had a captain who could n't fucking hack it , did n't have the guts to admit it , and had to send good men into a fucking killing ground to prove how fucking brave he really was . ’ |
| 26 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 27 | If we had found good reason to say no , to the first question , there are implications for how we say no to the second question . |
| 28 | He had adored good food , good wine , music , beautiful things … |
| 29 | The level taken along the northern branch had yielded good copper ( and was still in good ore ) with a deal of ground yet unwrought . |
| 30 | Not just in the alleys of St Jude 's , where John-William had taken good care never to be devoured himself , but everywhere . |