Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] stead " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that it was a good inheritance , and one that has stood me in good stead all my life . |
| 2 | In essence , what has stood me in good stead all these years in broadcasting is spotting good people and waiting for them to come forward with what interests them ; what obsessions , what passions they have in translating those into programmes . |
| 3 | It is not the only time my profound knowledge of football has stood me in good stead . |
| 4 | Conran is convinced , too , that his experience of manufacturing in the early days has stood him in good stead as head of a retailing empire . |
| 5 | His background with the round ball has stood him in good stead in becoming one of the country 's leading goal-kickers . |
| 6 | It has stood her in good stead , for she has had to deal with very serious health problems and has never allowed these to depress or hinder her . |
| 7 | What we were talking about , or what I think is interesting is your experience from your early days in horse shoeing has stood you in good stead for the revival of interest in driving erm if you 'd like to tell us a bit more about that I 'd love to hear it cos I 'm never tired of that . |
| 8 | It is much more geared to the administration of personnel records than was the bureau system but the experience we gained using the bureau has stood us in good stead for our own system . |
| 9 | ‘ As we had maintained our large weighting in overseas equities and cash throughout the period of UK membership of the ERM , this cautious perception of the political and economic risks being run has stood us in good stead . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The adrenalin was pumping and my experience should have stood me in good stead . |
| 11 | ‘ The adrenalin was pumping and my experience should have stood me in good stead . |
| 12 | it 's a little disappointing because we had been lying insecond place and that would have stood us in good stead for the rest of the competition |
| 13 | These shoes had stood him in good stead . |
| 14 | His loyalty had stood him in good stead after the restoration , and he was now a commissioner of police for religious conformity — a post which did not prevent him from working in any other area which Horemheb , through the king , saw fit to appoint him to . |
| 15 | The formal methods of teaching , the accent on the ‘ three Rs ’ , had stood me in good stead and in those aspects of school work I was ahead . |
| 16 | Lizzy 's butter-wouldn't-melt-in-her-mouth image had kept her in good stead the last few years , but soon she wanted to break away . |
| 17 | It 's stood me in good stead and I 'll keep doing it . |