Example sentences of "have had a good [noun] " in BNC.

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31 They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too .
32 ‘ Well , goodbye , ’ he finished conventionally ; ‘ I wish you 'd had a better day . ’
33 That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months .
34 As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives .
35 He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall .
36 and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC .
37 Beverley Lewis , a disabled woman who died in her mother 's home in Gloucester three years ago might have had a better chance if the city and not the county controlled it 's own social services .
38 I could not have had a better tutor in extra-mural teaching .
39 Jimmy could have had a better serve .
40 In your case you could n't have had a better officer , in my view , to handle that situation .
41 Relativity may have had a better press , but it is quantum theory that we have to thank , at a practical level , for our understanding of chemistry , molecular biology and solid-state physics , as well as nuclear physics and the deeper puzzles of particle theory .
42 Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening .
43 Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks .
44 Clearly each player so honoured brings his own style and personality to the job and we could n't have had a better example than from David Sole .
45 Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s .
46 As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader …
47 Brian Horton says they could not have had a better match .
48 Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! "
49 The Latics could n't have had a better boost than Saturday 's four-goal demolition of Middlesbrough and Royle said : ‘ That was our best show this season .
50 No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy .
51 If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth .
52 This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff .
53 Would his wife not have had a better quality of life with fewer children ?
54 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 .
55 ‘ They might have had a good sleep — but we certainly have n't ! ’
56 ‘ 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 . ’
57 I 'll have had a good life , and I 'll have tried , and I 'll have made something of myself .
58 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 .
59 ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it .
60 Hey they must have had a good meal other night .
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