Example sentences of "[adv] had a good [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Poets had found their way over ( and sometimes back , to tell the tale ) ; so had a good number of priests over the centuries , and hermits , meditating on their essence so hard the In Ovo enveloped them and spat them into another world .
2 Students in the USA had to go out on placement to firms for training , and thus had a good grounding in practical embalming .
3 Their intentions were oblique and somewhat vague , but Klein already had a good idea about the subject to be discussed .
4 Afterwards he dismissed the defeat as no more than ‘ irritating ’ and said he still had a good chance of winning the match .
5 But the public still had a good deal of confidence in the armed forces and the police , although both were held in less regard than they were ten years ago .
6 I always had a good relationship with the press .
7 The Royal family are country people , their interests and off-duty activities are all to do with the countryside , and the Prince always had a good knowledge of its workings ; but it was not until after he became chairman of the steering committee for Wales that he discovered the danger it was in .
8 Rutherford knew that his wife liked Dan Ruane , always had a good word for him .
9 The wives of prosperous burgesses also had a good deal of managerial responsibility and authority .
10 I also had a good talk on international topics with Mr. Kozyrev , the Russian Foreign Minister .
11 But in Franconia Louis the German clearly had a good deal of support , and his power-base in Bavaria held firm : no churchman from there attended Lothar 's assembly at Ingelheim .
12 All of these felt able to argue that the Serbs had already achieved most of their war aims , and now had a good chance of hanging on to them .
13 She did n't respond to allopathic painkillers , developed vomiting and diarrhoea and then had a good response to Arsenicum Album LM4 but having recovered from the acute was experiencing some return of anxiety symptoms .
14 The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence .
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