Example sentences of "have choose [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They were ripe for change , and , as it happened , I could n't have chosen a better subject with which to widen the scope of the Church 's activities .
2 Mr Robin Cook , shadow Health Secretary , said : ‘ We could not have chosen a better issue to put centre stage for the first televised session of Parliament . ’
3 If Rune had set out deliberately to enrage her he could n't have chosen a better way .
4 The kidnappers could n't have chosen a better day .
5 And they could n't have chosen a better day ; brilliant blue skies and fierce winds .
6 He had scarcely known Maggie , could not have known that he could not have chosen a better treat than this mysterious park , with its vast statues carved out of the living rock : the huge-mouthed cave with its mighty teeth , the vast stone giant , his shoulders visible through bushes a hundred yards away , half hidden in greenery ; and above all , the great carved stone dragon with its broken wings , and wild Chinese eyes .
7 ‘ But I could n't have chosen a better house than this flat . ’
8 And the victim could have chosen a better place to voice throaty communist sentiments .
9 GRAEME HICK finally lived up to his tag as England 's saviour yesterday — and the one-time ‘ Boy Wonder ’ could not have chosen a better moment to put his wretched Test record behind him .
10 SINEAD Donaghy could n't have chosen a better time to score her first goal of the season .
11 We had a beautiful Spring holiday on the Beauly Firth , and could not have chosen a better time to be there , with all the different kinds of foliage on the hillsides , and the spring flowers on the banks .
12 More than a decade ago you could have chosen the best nylon line from those manufactured as easily as sifting maggots from casters , there were so few good ones and so many bad ones .
13 As Jamie was 10 shots behind going into the final round at Crans , his regular caddie , Mark Steers , was quite confident that he had chosen a good week to take off .
14 He had ordered the things that Scotland did best , just as he had chosen the best French courses in Agen .
15 ‘ At least you have chosen a good man . ’
16 ‘ You have chosen a good time .
17 Helmut Rechenburg , his collaborator on this mammoth project , was Heisenberg 's last doctoral student , and clearly well suited to the task in hand Faced with so much material , it must be hard to know what to leave out , and the authors have chosen the best solution — leave nothing out .
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