Example sentences of "to have [verb] [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 2 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |
| 3 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |
| 4 | Somehow , the party is going to have to find a better way of operating this time round . |
| 5 | Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance . |
| 6 | It 's an unusual day cos he 's got to have create a good impression with the boss you see , the area manager , there might be something in it for him . |
| 7 | Since I find novelists tend to say it better than sociologists , let me quote from one who seems to have anticipated a good deal of what was to come after the period when we had never had it so good : |
| 8 | In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more . |
| 9 | ‘ You two appear to have had a good time , ’ Maggie said with a smile . |
| 10 | He seems to have had a good acquaintance with the theory and practice of shoeing , though we can not admit his claim to originality . |
| 11 | ‘ You seem to have had a good view , ’ commented Dexter . |
| 12 | Magnus is said to have led a blameless childhood and in the Longer Magnúss Saga he is said to have had a good schooling which enabled him to learn ‘ holy writings ’ . |
| 13 | I would like to have had a good first round match first . |
| 14 | Newspapers in North America suffered in the recession , but paid-for regional papers in the UK are said to have had a good year . |
| 15 | In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it . |
| 16 | Diuretics seem to have had a better protective effect than β blockers . |
| 17 | Yes , I think we 'll have to have have a good look , yes it 's alright when you 've got a few things to get , but when when you 've got the whole list . |
| 18 | Their daughter seemed to have taken the best features and left the bad ones . |
| 19 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 20 | Two of them — Iris Murdoch and William Golding — are said to have composed a good deal of fiction before succeeding at last with a publisher ; succeeding , as Golding once remarked , not because he had tried to please but because for once he stopped trying and wrote the book he had always wanted to write . |
| 21 | Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter . |